Faculty Panel on Climate/Justice

Join us for a panel of Macalester faculty (and guests) as part of Macalester's Teach-In for Climate / Justice

Date: Wednesday, 3/30

Time: 4:45-6:00 p.m.

Location: Zoom

Register for the zoom session here.

Panelists

Roopali Phadke (Environmental Studies; moderator)

Louisa Bradtmiller (Environmental Studies)

Title: Risks and opportunities: What science can tell us about climate change in the present moment

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Silvia Cifuentes (Environmental Studies)

Title: The Multiple Definitions of Climate Justice and Indigenous Territorial Defense in Amazonia

Description: This short presentation will first question some common definitions and approaches to climate justice. It will then propose a more profound definition of climate justice that emerges from my work with Indigenous organizations in Amazonia, and their climate change initiatives: climate justice as territorial defense. This definition not only represents a different way of viewing nature, but rather multiple worlds, realities and “natures” (and thus, of different ontologies) that are part of the struggles and the politics to address climate change in Amazonia.

Jim Dawes (English)

Title: It’s Time to Start Punishing the Polluters

Description: This talk addresses the current failures in the global approach to addressing climate change and proposes an alternative: namely, making ecocide a fifth international crime punishable by the International Criminal Court, alongside genocide, crimes against humanity, the crime of aggression, and war crimes.

Sonia Mehta (Educational Studies)

Title: Least Complicit, Most Affected, Holistically Responsive: How Children Are Embodying Climate Justice by Building Resilient Communities and Reconstructing Hope

Description: This short presentation presents a unique, culture-changing, holistic approach to tackling a global challenge. This process was envisioned by a small NGO working in the foothills of the Himalayas. The approach, which taps into the power of wonder, curiosity, purpose, and joy of young people, to build relationships and networks of meaning, works to deal with the primary existential crisis of our time. The founder of this program, Aditi Kaur, will join us from Dehradun, India, to share the insights and stories of this remarkable process.