"Sustainability" or Survival? Popular Responses to Global Climate Change:
A 5-part video dialogue series with international ad 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 popular movements that promote more sustainable futures and all forms of climate and environmental justice.

Speaker: Cindy Wiesner, Director of Grassroots Global Justice Alliance

Suggested readings:
Davey, Melissa, Vaughn, Adam, and Amanda Holpuch (2014) “People’s Climate March – Thousands Around the World Demand Action – As It Happened” The Guardian. 21 September. Online: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/live/2014/sep/21/peoples-climate-...

The Guardian (2015) “The Guardian View on Paris 2015: the World’s Last Best Chance to Reach an Agreement on Cutting Carbon Emissions” 1 January. Online: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/01/guardian-view-paris...

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_...

Bond, Patrick. 2011. "From Copenhagen to Cancun to Durban: Moving Deckchairs on the Climate Titanic." Capitalism Nature Socialism 22:3-26 (Note: University students have to access the article through Hillman library via Interlibrary Loan)

More information on future sessions is available on the Global Studies website: http://www.ucis.pitt.edu/global/node/484.