This module investigates the intersections of society and climate. Global heating, rising seas, prolonged droughts, dry riverbeds, wars over scarce resources or using scarce resources as leverage, and mass extinction of plants and animal species is already affecting human society. In one of few predictions social scientists can make with high consensus and confidence: the profundity of these effects will increase with time. Sharply reduced water supply, mass migration of humans and animals, and flooding of major cities will change the social world as we know it. What are the mechanisms of these changes? How do they interact with one another? What can be done to minimize the harms? Which sociological and criminological tools help understand this new world? And which perspectives on society does this crisis force us to re-examine? These are some of the important questions we will address in this module. Successful students in this module will be able to articulate the basic material mechanisms of climate change and to propose and adjudicate intervening social mechanisms; that is, they will be able to apply ideas from sociological or criminological thinking to discuss how climate change affects society and how societies might mitigate its effects.