The Politics of Climate Change: From the neo-liberal State to oppositional social movements.
Submitted by Robert S Eshelman on Mon, 01/10/2011 - 10:58pm
Panel Abstract:
Flooding in Pakistan, wildfires in Russia, food riots in the Maghreb: all are harbingers of the social impacts of climate change. U.N. talks to address climate change limped incrementally forward in 2010. But extreme weather events and the social dislocations associated with growing climate chaos are becoming more frequent. Across the globe governments are facing ever greater pressures: rising sea levels, dwindling water supplies, ethnic and religious violence, civil wars, banditry, and deepening poverty and economic stagnation. The great powers dither, but a nascent climate justice movement, aided in part by several left-leaning governments, continue to develop and push a broad climate justice agenda. This panel will survey the politics of this moment in the climate struggle. We will discuss: China, the US, the mobilized global south, intergovernmental rivalries, the interconnection between neo-liberalism and climate change, and the state of the climate movement.
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- Christian Parenti—The Nation, Contributing Editor
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- Christian Parenti—The Nation, Contributing Editor
- Lucia Green-Weiskel—The Innovation Center for Energy and Transportation/CUNY Graduate
- Robert S. Eshelman—Independent Journalist
- Tina Gerhardt–Academic and Independent Journalist
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Panel Abstract:
Flooding in Pakistan, wildfires in Russia, food riots in the Maghreb: all are harbingers of the social impacts of climate change. U.N. talks to address climate change limped incrementally forward in 2010. But extreme weather events and the social dislocations associated with growing climate chaos are becoming more frequent. Across the globe governments are facing ever greater pressures: rising sea levels, dwindling water supplies, ethnic and religious violence, civil wars, banditry, and deepening poverty and economic stagnation. The great powers dither, but a nascent climate justice movement, aided in part by several left-leaning governments, continue to develop and push a broad climate justice agenda. This panel will survey the politics of this moment in the climate struggle. We will discuss: China, the US, the mobilized global south, intergovernmental rivalries, the interconnection between neo-liberalism and climate change, and the state of the climate movement.
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