A 5-part video dialogue series with international and local leaders of NGOs highlighting effective mobilization efforts to protect themselves from the effects of global warming and to promote climate justice. The series will identify how climate change and environmental problems disproportionately affect already-vulnerable communities, the limitations of government, UN-based, "free-market," or technological attempts to address climate change, and the resulting rise of pupular movements that promote more sustainable futures and all forms of climate and environmental justice.
Presenter: Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr, Hip Hop Caucus
Suggested readings:
Kozlowska, Hanna (2014) “The Climate Movement Is About Much More Than Just Climate” New York Times. 23 September. Online: http://op-talk.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/23/the-climate-movement-is-abou...
“People’s Climate Music” (2014) Hip Hop Caucus. Online: peoplesclimatemusic.com/about/
Podesta, P.J. and Laura Smith (2014) “The Changing Face of Climate Change” Slate. 22 September. http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2014/09/people_...
“The Fossil Fuel Resistance: The New Green Heroes” (2013) Rolling Stone. 11 April. Online: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/lists/the-fossil-fuel-resistance-me...
More information may be found on the Global Studies website: http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/global/node/484