Coping with the Climate Crisis Demands Transformative Change
Location
Bowers Auditorium, 205 Prospect St.
RSVP is required.
As disasters mount and the global climate further destabilizes, the task before us is no longer simply to cut carbon quick as we can manage. We must prepare to inhabit a wounded world hostile to the human project at the same time we seek to heal it. But the economic and political systems of today, the systems that created the crises before us, are ultimately inadequate for that task.
To step to the challenge of coping with the climate crisis, we must identify and enact solutions that allow us to take meaningful steps to addressing the problems directly before us while constructing new ways of living, being, and relating that allow us as individuals, communities, and countries to live in right relation to the planet.
In this talk, Syris will discuss the limitations of our current approach to climate change, the alternatives that people are already experimenting with, and what it will take for those solutions to achieve their transformative potential.
About the Speakers
Syris Valentine is a freelance climate journalist who focuses on telling stories about the people and communities creating and advancing imaginative solutions to the climate crisis and all the issues that intersect with it.
Co-sponsored by The Yale School of the Environment's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Office
