Talks on Climate Futures from outside of UCSB
Kim Stanley Robinson
Valuing the Earth and Future Generations: Imagining Post-Capitalism (source)
Kim Stanley Robinson is the author of the Mars Trilogy, 2312, the Three Californias Trilogy, and many other works of science fiction. His books have won the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Awards.
Kathleen Dean Moore
Questions for a Resilient Future (source)
Kathleen Dean Moore is a writer, moral philosopher, and environmental activist. Recent books include Great Tide Rising: Finding Clarity and Moral Courage to Confront Climate Change and Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril.
Rob Nixon
From the symposium on Transformation Without Apocalypse: How to Live Well on an Altered Planet (source)
Rob Nixon is the Thomas A. and Currie C. Barron Family Professor in Humanities and the Environment at Princeton University and author of Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor.
Carolyn Finney
From the symposium on Transformation Without Apocalypse: How to Live Well on an Altered Planet (source)
Carolyn Finney is an assistant professor of Geography at the University of Kentucky and author of Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors.
Eric Holt-Giménez
Food Movements, Climate Resilience, Social Change (source)
Eric Holt-Giménez is the Executive Director of Food First; editor of the book Food Movements Unite! Strategies to Transform Our Food Systems; co-author of Food Rebellions! Crisis and the Hunger for Justice with Raj Patel and Annie Shattuck; and author of Campesino a Campesino: Voices from Latin America’s Farmer to Farmer Movement for Sustainable Agriculture.