The conference is entitled “The World in 2050: Creating/Imagining Just Climate Futures,”” and it opened today at:

https://ehc.english.ucsb.edu/?page_id=14895#panels

 There are 17 panels, with 51 speakers covering such topics as oceans, cli-fi, cities, agriculture and food, technology, climate action, climate justice, and many others, often intersecting since this changes everything means everything affects everything else, and part of the challenge is to figure out how, and to use that knowledge strategically, to change things in ways that ripple outward, long and slow, or sudden and flashingly?

The keynote talks are by Bill McKibben, Margaret Klein Salamon, Wen Stephenson, and Erik Assadourian (we hope that a talk by Patrick Bond will soon be up as well!).

 Our goal is to model a conference with a nearly nonexistent carbon footprint.

 But beyond that, as you will see, we hope to build relationships and a knowledge-action network of scholars and activists for climate justice and radical social transformation in the face of humanity’s greatest threat.

I also attached a whimsical piece I wrote about the process…

 Thanks!

 John

John Foran, Professor

Sociology and Environmental Studies

Co-Director, International Institute of Climate Action and Theory [www.iicat.org] Co-founding member, the Climate Justice Project [www.climateactionproject.org]

E-mail:  foran@soc.ucsb.edu