Panel 15: Working Futures, Reducing Emissions

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Panel 15: Working Futures, Reducing Emissions

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Greening the Blue: Environmental Activists and Climate Action within the American Labor Movement

Todd Vachon, University of Connecticut

As part of an ongoing ethnographic research project, this talk discusses the role of environmental activists within the labor movement pressing for change from within. It will explore the role of activist pressure within the labor movement—with a focus on “just transition” policies and a “Green New Deal”—as a necessary step to eroding one of the many “pillars of support” for the fossil fuel industry in the U.S (more).

Achieving Carbon Neutrality by 2025, The UC Santa Barbara Approach

Colleen McCamy, University of California, Santa Barbara

In November 2013, University of California President Janet Napolitano challenged the UC system to achieve carbon neutrality by 2025 in scope 1 and 2 emissions in efforts to curb greater environmental degradation. This talk will describe the draft climate action plan for UCSB and the changes that will need to occur in order for us to achieve the goals in the plan (more).

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Panel 14: A Role for Literature?

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Panel 14: A Role for Literature?

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“Fictions of Futurity”: Ecocritical Practice in Contemporary Fiction

Jessica Holmes, University of Washington

This presentation will examine narrative representations of nature and human nature in several contemporary texts. In doing so, the presenter will pose and answer a number of pertinent questions. What does it mean to represent the world as story? How can these texts serve to “imagine” and/or “create just climate futures”? And what role does literary form play in constructing practical critical approaches to global realities? Finally, how can/does fiction seek to preserve an endangered planet, and perhaps even reverse some of the damage already done? (more).

Simulating Futures: An Inquiry into the Efficacy of Cli-fi as the Literary Genre of the Anthropocene

Pooja Agarwal, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

There is an urgent need to educate the lay citizen about the impending future that awaits us if we continue to indulge in erratic and excessive materialism and consumption. Climate-fiction offers a creative simulation of imagined futures, often dystopian, apocalyptic, and catastrophic in nature that can shake the reader out of complacency, and mobilize her/him into definite action and bring about a change at the very level of an individual. This presentation is an attempt to systematically analyze the efficacy of cli-fi as the imaginative literature of the twenty first century (more).

The Role of Environmental Literature in Mitigating Climate Change

Teja Dusanapudi

In order to change our as­of­now inevitable environmental outcome in 2050, this talk urges that we must create widespread changes to not only the laws that allow for exploitation but also to the increasingly information saturated public. The only feasible way, the presentation stresses to awake the general public to our environmental plight so that change can be made before 2050 is through literature (more).

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Panel 13: Who Will Teach the Teachers?

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Panel 13: Who Will Teach the Teachers?

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Education in 2050 – Taking Back Our Schools

Sandra Lindberg, System Change Not Climate Change

This presentation traces a possible future of education in the year 2050. Expanding beyond merely the classroom, this talk suggests that this future also has the potential to rethink capitalism and reintegrate humans with planet (more).

A Creative World Needs Child Centric Communities

Hasmukh Sapnawala, Experience Based Holistic Learning Environment

By 2050, this presentation envisions we have moved towards self-sustaining communities where the focus of life is promoting happiness, health and harmony for everyone, specifically children. The presenter will walk us through the steps needed to get to such a world given where we are now (more).

Storefronts for Good: Local Action through Coursework

Susan Dieterlen, Syracuse University

Local, repeatable actions can sidestep government dysfunction and financial limits, while strengthening city-wide community. Neighborhood storefronts are an everyday nexus of sustainability and justice, fighting food deserts, unemployment and vacancy while improving walkability. This talk will explore this topic as a way to combat climate change while improving socio-economic conditions in more depth (more).

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Panel 12: Indigenous Futures/Justice

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Panel 12: Indigenous Futures/Justice

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Bringing Indigenous Values to Bear on an Urban Land Ethic

Phil Arnold and Rachel May, Syracuse University

Using the Onondaga Nation’s efforts in Syracuse to revive the natural landscape, this presentation will explore some of the efforts that have been made to surmount that divide between growth and change over permanence. The authors will do so in the context of a broader theorizing about the need for an urban land ethic.(more).

Linda Hogan’s Dwellings: Our Only Future is to “Restore and Honor” the Treaties “We Once had with the Land”

Márgara Averbach, University of Buenos Aires

This talk analyzes a work by a Native author, Linda Hogan, and her approach to contextualize the relationship we have with the world around us. The presenter will explore the thought process that led us to stray “from the treaties we once had with the land”, and what it takes to honor them once again if we are to have a future as a species (more).

Solutions to a changing climate: stories from the past and present to inform the future

Julie Maldonado, Livelihoods Knowledge Exchange Network

Stories serve as powerful conduits of knowledge among and between people and across generations and locales. Considering the power of stories at this critical time, as we enter into a new climate system, this talk addresses the following question: How can storytelling – and the lessons informed by stories – foster the creation of sustainable and culturally-appropriate solutions to climate change among and between people with various technical and traditional perspectives, approaches, and objectives? (more).

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Panel 11: Paths to Liberation

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Panel 11: Paths to Liberation

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Citizens Building Political Will

Emily Northrop, Southwestern University

This presentation will briefly describe the history, structure, values, methods and successes of the Citizens Climate Lobby, an organization of ordinary citizens who are building “political will for a livable world”. It will then sketch the economics of the “carbon fee and dividend” policy, including the projected downward redistribute of purchasing power in the United States (more).

Climate Justice: A Call for Leadership

Margot Hurlbert, University of Regina

This talks provides both a common definition of climate justice through literature review and use of a survey and argues that strong leadership from all is required to move climate justice forward. Defining justice is important as it can provide guidance to climate negotiators (more).

Liberation Communications: How Participatory Framing Fomented the People-Powered Movement for Just Transition

Celia Alario, University of California, Santa Barbara

This presenter imagines a world of 2050 that promotes rights-based approach to climate solutions. The talk outlines the path to get here, including how we can build power in communities most directly impacted by climate chaos, retool our activism and finally learned to put relationship before task, recognizing that quality relationships supported true empowerment and authentic self-expression, which allowed for greater participation, and ultimately fomented our deepening democracy (more).

Making Cosmopolitical Commons in the Ruins of Europe

Miriam Tola, Northeastern University

This talk imagines what Europe will look like 2050 by envisioning the proliferation of struggles for the commons as more just mode for dwelling on earth. Working back from the future to the present, the presentation finds traces of the cosmopolitical commons in an episode of struggle occurring in Rome, Italy, where an urban lake has recently become a central actor in a prolonged mobilization for the commons (more).

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Panel 9: Future Polities/Economies

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Panel 9: Future Polities/Economies

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A View from the Future: Climate, Capitalism, Existentialism

Brad Hornick, Simon Frasier University

Envisioning radical changes forced upon us by climatic tipping points in coming years, this talk introduces the concept of a massive ecosocialist revolution. The presenter will discuss what such a transition would entail, and what it means for both humanity and the planet (more).

Ecoswaraj or Radical Ecological Democracy: Transformative Pathways in 2050

Ashish Kothari, Kalpavriksh & ICCA Consortium

This talk explores transformative frameworks for a sustainable and equitable future, going beyond symptomatic solutions such as ‘green growth’. It explores one such framework–Radical Ecological Democracy,–and the principals that can be derived from it moving forward to the year 2050 (more).

The Power Equation and Climate Justice in 2050

Pallav Das, Kalpavriksh

This talk makes an inquiry of the evolution of power relations as capitalism progressed through its mercantile, industrial and finance incarnations, both, through colonial and post-colonial periods, and where it stands today. It then examines the path of alternative economic development situated in the egalitarian dissemination of power, being crafted by popular movements, indigenous peoples, and initiatives of systemic change, which could lead us to a new era of climate justice in 2050 (more).

The End of Private Property

Michael Gasser, System Change not Climate Change & Michelle Glowa, California Institute for Integral Studies

This talk illustrates the dangers our current system of private property hold for the planet. The presenter will examine contemporary efforts to alter how we view the ‘right’ to property, and what it would take to abolish private property altogether (more).

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Panel 8: (De)Meating the Future

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Panel 8: (De)Meating the Future

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Carnism and Climate

Jerome Bump, University of Texas, Austin

This presentation will explore how, by significantly reducing our meat consumption we will be able to distribute resources more justly and reduce extreme climate changes by the year 2050. This greater distribution of justice, it will be discussed, extends far beyond just humans or livestock, but all species (more).

Greenhorn Visions and the New Agrarian Activism: Imagining Alternative Agriculture in the Anthropocene

Bradley Jones, Washington University in St. Louis

This talk considers the possibilities and limits of food activism to imagine and enact just futures in the Anthropocene. To bring about more just futures the presenter will explore the emergence of alternative agriculture as a fertile site of becoming; cultivating not only new relationships between humans and nature but also between humans and other humans (more).

The Vegan Metamorphosis from 2050

Sailesh Rao, Climate Healers

This presentation predicts the possibility and attributes of a vegan metamorphosis in the years leading up to 2050. Forced into a new awareness from its unsustainable lifestyle, the presenter offers an explanation for humanity’s shift towards regarding all life as sacred, and the consequences this poses for planet (more).

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Panel 7: Philosophical Dilemmas

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Panel 7: Philosophical Dilemmas

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The Ontological Brakes of Primordial Time

Benjamin Ross, University of North Texas

We are constantly urged to go faster, to work, consume, and experience more. This author posits that this fascination with acceleration may be leading us to a “Snow Crash-esque cyberpunk dystopia” by 2050 unless we alter our perspective of time. This presentation stresses the need for a new, primordial view of time that is capable of reevaluating our role, and place in the world (more).

Human Behavioral Evolution and Climate Change: Evolved Dispositions, Climate Action, and Integration with the Humanities

John Mustol, Fuller Seminary

What can science tell us about what kind of creatures we are, why we behave as we do, and how we might change our behavior in regards to the planet? This presentation will suggest some answers to these questions based on human behavioral evolution, that might be integrated with the humanities and other sources to help show a way forward and make 2050 and beyond more livable – for us and for other creatures (more).

Weakening Nationalities: The Anthropocene as an Era of Personal Responsibility

Larissa Basso, University of California, San Diego

Current institutions seem incapable of dealing with the reality of climate change. This presentation imagines a world in which current fragmentation is intensified as a means to address this deficiency. The author proposes to acknowledge the heterogeneity that exists inside of a nation state and to consider it beyond its borders. By implementing different measures considering personal/group carbon footprint, climate change could be more successfully tackled and a more just climate future could be created (more).

Working with Dirty Hands: A Christian Realist Environmental Ethics

Dallas J. Gingles, Southern Methodist University

This talk draws on the 20th century ethicist, Reinhold Niebuhr’s, “Christian realism” to argue that we are right to feel regret, remorse, and even guilt when we realize that we are always already complicit in the problem of climate change. Through this lens, as we work to ensure that the Earth continues to be habitable in the coming decades, the presenter stresses we must be indefatigable in pursuing goods and solutions of all kinds while being realistic about our limitations (more).

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Panel 6: Just Agricultural Futures

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Panel 6: Just Agricultural Futures

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A Tale of Two Sofias: Contested Visions for an Argentine Agriculture in 2050

Ingrid Elísabet Feeney, University of California, Santa Barbara

This presentation explores the distinct modes of knowledge production which lie behind competing visions for the future of Argentine agriculture, using two figures as an entry point. The first is the animated star of one of Monsanto Argentina’s PR campaigns: Sofia, the nine billionth person on the planet, born January 1st, 2050. The second is an environmental justice activist, who is a core member of the ongoing four-year blockade against the construction of a Monsanto plant in Argentina (more).

Food Sovereignty: A strategy for generating a just future and reducing climate impacts

David Barkin, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana

This talk introduces the concept of a food sovereignty approach to rural development. Through this approach’s forward looking strategy to social mobilization, its confrontation of the scourge of rural disintegration while also addressing the pressing issue of environmental balance, the presenter argues the necessity of such a system to bring about a more just and sustainable future. (more).

Tomorrow’s Fields: Social Farming in 2050

Catherine Day, University of Wisconsin-Madison

This talk imagines a U.S. agriculture in 2050 that has allowed for a resurgence of democratic input into farming, thereby shifting how agricultural knowledge. Such features of a new agricultural system will be discussed and how the new blending of ideas will spur innovation towards more ecologically-oriented agriculture practices that leave behind dependence on fossil fuels and embrace species diversity (more).

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Panel 5: Cli-fi Creations/Writing Cli-fi

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Panel 5: Cli-fi Creations/Writing Cli-fi

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A Tale of How Radical Climate Justice Just Might Get Us All to 2050 in One Piece [a novella in progress]

John Foran, University of California, Santa Barbara

This presentation will re-envision Naomi Oreskes and Richard Conway’s grim “future history,” through the hopeful lens of today’s global climate justice movement. The talk will conclude by venturing into the uncharted territory of a post-capitalist world (more).

Changing the Narrative: Viewing the Present from the Future

Christopher Bowman, University of Minnesota—Twin Cities

This paper constructs a counternarrative to dystopian climate fiction by identifying sources of optimism and envisioning the outcomes of their implementation. While ultimately depicting a number of collisions with climate change, this paper charts a more likely—and optimistic—narrative for humanity than its apocalyptic predecessors (more).

The Great Transformation: How We (Just) Avoided a Climate Catastrophe

Jeremy Lent, Liology Institute

This talk imagines a world saved from the brink of collapse by grass-roots communities across the world connected through a shared foundation of core values emphasizing quality of life over material possessions. The presenter outlines what such a movement would entail and how it reverted the world from near certain catastrophe (more).

Three Fragments to Generate Alternative Visions of Climate Futures

Laurence Marty, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales

This talk will draw from the presenter’s personal experience in the environmental realm to tell the story of three fictional characters affected by climate change. By expanding the scope of potentialities, including prefigurative experiments developed by social movements, the author hopes to help imagine and create alternative and fairer climate futures(more).

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