How Not to Save the Planet with Michael Goodhart
How Not to Save the Planet with Michael Goodhart
- Pittsburgh Cultural Trust and Carnegie Mellon University
- Trust Arts Education Center
This event is a Core Conversation at the 2019 Pittsburgh Humanities Festival. See the full Core Conversation lineup here.
In this talk, Michael Goodhart will use the example of "kayaktivism" to illustrate why efforts to combat catastrophic climate transformation have mostly failed and reflect on how we might do better. Goodhart's key insight is that scholars and many activists have treated this as an argument, when it's really a fight. Put differently, catastrophic climate transformation is not a scientific or a philosophical problem in Goodhart's view but, rather, a political problem and we must act accordingly.
Michael Goodhart is Professor of Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh. He holds secondary appointments in Philosophy and Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies. He is also the Director of the Global Studies Center and a University Honors College Faculty Fellow.
Supported by the Humanities Center at the University of Pittsburgh
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