摘要: Climate change has largely been understood as a biophysical, economic, and political phenomenon. This approach obscured the ways in which climate also poses challenge to human subjective understandings of self society relation place, perceptions sacred. Glaciers, dominant features high mountain landscapes, are sites easily observable consequences change, grounding distant carbon emissions material surroundings. They powerful sacred symbolic meanings for local communities. review examines three instances glacial decline Peruvian Andes, Nepalese Himalaya, Meili Snow Mountains Yunnan, China. These examples show that is not simply process, but important implications people understand themselves make meaning their Locally grounded values arising from particular experiences landscape, especially those most at risk effects may offer new avenues ethical reflection around can should influence larger discourses. WIREs Clim Change 2015, 6:493–508. doi: 10.1002/wcc.354 For further resources related this article, please visit website.