Climate Suffering: Responding to the Human Experience
Paul Wapner
Tuesday, 12 Feb 2013 at 8:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union
No matter how much we try to mitigate and adapt to climate change, there will still be unprecedented amounts of human suffering. This talk explores how people on the front lines of climate change are making sense of their experience, the choices societies face for enduring climate hardship, and how we can respond to climate suffering. Paul Wapner is Professor of Global Environmental Politics at the American University. He is the author of Living Through the End of Nature and Environmental Activism and World Civic Politics, winner of the Harold and Margaret Sprout Award for the best book on international environmental affairs. Paul Wapner earned graduate degrees from Princeton University and the University of Chicago. The 2012-13 Helen LeBaron Hilton Chair in Human Sciences.Cosponsored By:
- College of Human Sciences
- Helen LeBaron Hilton Chair
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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