{"id":17106,"date":"2017-07-26T19:49:04","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T02:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=17106"},"modified":"2017-08-14T19:29:12","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T02:29:12","slug":"17106-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/?page_id=17106","title":{"rendered":"Conference Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='av_section_1'  class='avia-section main_color avia-section-no-padding avia-no-shadow  av-parallax-section avia-bg-style-parallax  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_one_full  avia-builder-el-first   av-minimum-height av-minimum-height-75  container_wrap fullsize' style=' '  data-section-bg-repeat='no-repeat' data-av_minimum_height_pc='75'><div class='av-parallax' data-avia-parallax-ratio='0.3' ><div class='av-parallax-inner main_color  avia-full-stretch' style = 'background-repeat: no-repeat; background-image: url(https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/change5.jpg);background-attachment: scroll; background-position: top center; ' ><\/div><\/div><div class='av-section-color-overlay-wrap'><a href='#next-section' title='' class='scroll-down-link '  aria-hidden='true' data-av_icon='\ue877' data-av_iconfont='entypo-fontello'><\/a><div class='container' ><main  role=\"main\" itemprop=\"mainContentOfPage\"  class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-17106'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'><\/div><\/div><\/main><!-- close content main element --><\/div><\/div><\/div><div id='after_section_1'  class='main_color av_default_container_wrap container_wrap fullsize' style=' '  ><div class='container' ><div class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-17106'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_full  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_section  el_before_av_one_fifth  avia-builder-el-first  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><div  style='height:50px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-3  el_before_av_hr  avia-builder-el-first '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=17106\"><span style=\"font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; color: #808080;\">ACTIVISTS, ARTISTS, AND ACADEMICS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=17106\"><span style=\"font-family: 'arial black', sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; color: #808080;\">BUILDING JUST CLIMATE FUTURES TOGETHER<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div  style='height:5px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_hr '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=17106\"><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #808080;\">A NEARLY CARBON-NEUTRAL CONFERENCE<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div   class='hr hr-short hr-center   avia-builder-el-5  el_after_av_hr  avia-builder-el-last '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-6  el_after_av_one_full  el_before_av_three_fifth  column-top-margin\" style='border-radius:0px; '><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_three_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-7  el_after_av_one_fifth  el_before_av_one_fifth  column-top-margin\" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Interested in staging a nearly carbon-neutral (NCN) conference? For the rationale behind this approach &amp;\u00a0details on how to coordinate such\u00a0events, see our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=14080\">White Paper \/ Practical Guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_fifth  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-9  el_after_av_three_fifth  el_before_av_one_full  column-top-margin\" style='border-radius:0px; '><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_full  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-10  el_after_av_one_fifth  el_before_av_one_full  column-top-margin\" style='border-radius:0px; '><p><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><div  style='height:20px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-12  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p>[easy-share buttons=&#8221;facebook,twitter,linkedin,mail&#8221; counters=0 native=&#8221;no&#8221; image=https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/yusuke-asai-waf-1.jpg url=https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?p=12640 facebook_text=Share twitter_text=Tweet\u00a0linkedin_text=Link text=&#8221;UCSB&#8217;S ACTIVISTS, ARTISTS, AND ACADEMICS CONFERENCE!&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><div  style='height:50px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-14  el_before_av_hr  avia-builder-el-first '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><\/p>\n<p>(Jump to <a href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?p=17273\">Introduction<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?p=17122\">Panel 1<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?p=17168\">Panel 2<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?p=17194\">Panel 3<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?p=17200\">Panel 4<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?p=17207\">Panel 5<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<div  style='height:20px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-15  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_hr '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p>We are excited to open this online nearly carbon-neutral conference on the theme of \u201cActivists, Artists, and Academics: Building Just Climate Futures Together.&#8221; Coordinated by UC Santa Barbara, this conference is the culminating event of our series of programs on \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=11154\">Climate Futures: This Changes Everything<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>The most pressing existential issue of the 21<sup>st<\/sup> century for humanity as a whole is the increasingly grim reality of climate change and our entry into a new era in the history of humans and the planet well signified by the Anthropocene. The changing conditions of life on Earth lie at the center of a storm of interconnected crises which include, among others, the precarity of the global economy, a widening deficit of political legitimacy, and cultures scarred by violence, from the most intimate interpersonal interactions to the most global realities of war-making.\u00a0 And now the Trump administration.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Unlike either the justifiably pessimistic critical discussions or the unrealistically optimistic policy approaches that increasingly confront (or ignore) each other around these crises, this conference will depart from our present ground zero by asking participants to develop ideas, analyses, works of art, strategies, and proposals of all kinds on the multiple possible ways to imagine, envision, enable, and collaboratively find or create some of the pathways to a more just \u00a0\u2013 or just less worse \u2013 outcome for humanity.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This will be a nearly carbon-neutral conference. We believe that a conference that takes up the multiple challenges posed by climate change while simultaneously contributing to the problem by burning carbon to such a degree as conferences usually do is simply unconscionable. Even a relatively small academic conference can generate the equivalent of 20,000 pounds or more of CO2 (chiefly from travel). \u00a0There is no longer an excuse for well-off academics from the rich world to be flying off to these conferences at the drop of an invitation.<\/p>\n<p>Consequently, this conference will occur entirely online. Over a period of four weeks, starting on Monday, July 31 and running through Friday, August 25, all talks, activities, creations, and other events will be available for viewing on the conference website. An extended discussion\/Q&amp;A will also take place online during this period, so that all participants and registered attendees will be able to connect with speakers and each other via online comments, and speakers will be able to reply in the same way. Both the talks and Q&amp;A sessions will remain up on the website as a permanent archive of the event.<\/p>\n<p>There is no registration fee for this conference.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=12500&amp;rmcb=1501186754\">Register to participate in the discussion here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While we realize that this will not replicate the face-to-face interaction of a conventional conference talk and Q&amp;A, we believe that it will nonetheless promote lively (almost undoubtedly better) discussion, as well as help build a community of activists, artists, and academics with intersecting creative interests and hopes for the world. An advantage to this approach is that individuals who would not otherwise be able to become involved in the conference owing to distance, daily life, or financial constraints will be able to fully take part. Although this online conference will have its own carbon footprint, as data centers and web activity also require energy, we expect that this will be only a small fraction of that of a conventional conference, likely as little as 1 percent.<\/p>\n<p>UCSB\u2019s Environmental Humanities Initiative (EHI) is hosting this conference\u00a0on the EHI website. While here, please feel free to explore the rest of the site, perhaps starting with our EHI\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=1266\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Intro<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Home<\/a> pages.<\/p>\n<p>Please send any questions to conference co-organizers <a href=\"mailto:foran@soc.ucsb.edu\">John Foran<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"mailto:hiltner@english.ucsb.edu\">Ken Hiltner<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div  style='height:10px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-16  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_hr '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Be as creative as you like in your comments \u2013 we look forward to seeing them!<\/em><\/p>\n<div  style='height:20px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-17  el_after_av_hr  avia-builder-el-last '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div   class='hr hr-short hr-center   avia-builder-el-18  el_after_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-last '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_full  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-19  el_after_av_one_full  el_before_av_hr  column-top-margin\" style='border-radius:0px; '><section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Introduction to Nearly Carbon-Neutral (NCN) Conferences (<a href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?p=17273\">visit panel<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<div  style='height:20px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-21  el_before_av_hr  avia-builder-el-first '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><em>Air Travel: Academia\u2019s Biggest Dirty Little Secret<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Ken Hiltner<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Air travel to conferences, talks, and meetings can account for a third of the\u00a0carbon footprint\u00a0for\u00a0a typical scholar or university. The event that you are attending is using a\u00a0nearly carbon-neutral (NCN)\u00a0conference approach\u00a0developed at UCSB\u00a0that can reduce conference\u00a0carbon footprints by a factor of 100 or more. In this talk, Hiltner details the problem and UCSB&#8217;s\u00a0NCN approach. For more information on how\u00a0to coordinate NCN\u00a0events, see our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=14080\">White Paper \/ Practical Guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Ken Hiltner is a Professor of the environmental humanities at UCSB. The Director of the Environmental Humanities Initiative (EHI), Hiltner has appointments in the English and Environmental Studies Departments.\u00a0He has published five books, including <em>Milton and Ecology<\/em>, <em>What Else is Pastoral?<\/em>, <em>Renaissance Ecology<\/em>, and <em>Ecocriticism: The Essential Reader<\/em>, as well as\u00a0a range of environmentally oriented articles.\u00a0Hiltner\u00a0has served as Director of UCSB\u2019s Literature &amp;\u00a0Environment Center, its Early Modern Center, the English Department\u2019s graduate program, and as the\u00a0Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Visiting Professor in the Environment and Humanities at Princeton University\u2019s Environmental Institute.\u00a0Prior to becoming a professor, for many years he made his living as a furniture maker.\u00a0A second-generation woodworker, he received commissions from five continents and had collections featured in major metropolitan galleries.<\/p>\n<div  style='height:20px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-22  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_hr '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Panel 1: The Global Climate Justice Movement in the Age of Crisis, Part One\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?p=17122\">visit panel<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<div  style='height:20px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-23  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_hr '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>The Global Climate Justice Movement Must Gear Up for Taking Political Power<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">John Foran<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">After briefly introducing this part of the conference, consisting of four panels on the problems and prospects of the Global Climate Justice Movement in the Age of Crisis, I will present what may be the movement\u2019s biggest task: crafting ways and means for it to actually take power across the world so that the desires of the vast majority of the world\u2019s residents (including the non-human creatures among us) can be the benchmark against which we measure our chances for arriving in mid-century in a world characterized not by multiple crises \u2013 global inequality, political disenchantment, and cultures of violence \u2013 but rather in a world beyond capitalism itself, even as the climate continues to threaten the very basis of humanity\u2019s existence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">My academic specialty is movements for radical social change, both 20th century revolutions \u2013 my 2005 book Taking Power: On the Origins of Twentieth Century Revolutions in the Third World is free \u2013 and 21st century movements for radical social change, from the Zapatistas and the global justice movement to Occupy, the Arab Spring, and now, esp. the global climate justice movement (see \u201cBeyond Insurgency to Radical Social Change: The New Situation (2014).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I now work passionately as a scholar-activist on, for, and within the global climate justice movement, which I see as at the center of the struggle for any prospect of achieving social justice and radical social change in the 21st century. A lot of my work is published at www.resilience.org. It can also be found on the websites of the International Institute of Climate Action and Theory and the Climate Justice Project. I am an active member of System Change Not Climate Change, the Green Party of California, and Santa Barbara 350.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"s1\"><em>Get Comfortable with Paradox<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Nathan Thanki<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><b><\/b><span class=\"s1\">In this talk Nathan points out some flaws in the organising culture of the climate movement and suggests that the way to <i>build better movements <\/i>(because the idea of &#8220;winning&#8221; in the climate crisis is laughable) is to embrace contradictions and engage in a battle of the imagination.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><b><\/b><span class=\"s1\">Nathan is one of the co-coordinators of the Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice and has been involved in the international climate change negotiations and global movements for climate justice for several years. He is currently based in his hometown of Belfast, Ireland, but has lived in Sudan, Canada, Peru, and the US where he attended the College of the Atlantic and was trained as a human ecologist. He dabbles in bad poetry, good whiskey and loud electronic music.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Climate Fear, Truth, and the Public: Discussion of the New York Magazine Article, \u201cThe Uninhabitable Earth\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Ezra Silk, Margaret Klein Salamon, and Anya Grenier<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Three leaders of The Climate Mobilization discuss the recent controversy around the New York Magazine piece, \u201cThe Uninhabitable Earth\u201d and the role of fear and other emotions in the climate movement. Should we tell the whole, frightening truth? Can they handle it? We argue that, when combined with a potential solution\u2014WWII scale climate mobilization\u2014the truth can be intensely motivating.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Margaret Klein Salamon, PhD is the founder and director of The Climate Mobilization Salamon earned her doctorate in clinical psychology from Adelphi University and also holds a BA in Social Anthropology from Harvard. Though she loved being a therapist, Margaret felt called to apply her psychological and anthropological knowledge to solving climate change.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Ezra Silk is a co-founder and head of Strategy and Policy at the Climate Mobilization. A former newspaper reporter, Silk is the author of TCM\u2019s Victory Plan, and he is leading TCM\u2019s efforts in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Anya Grenier is the head of The Climate Mobilization\u2019s media operation. She is also the author of TCM\u2019s Blueprint for an Emergency Climate Movement. She recently graduated from Yale college.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Safe&#8221; Climate Change?<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span class=\"s1\">Emily Williams<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">In order to build &#8216;climate justice futures&#8217; collectively, our society needs to square with a divisive conception of climate change &#8212; that the threshold for &#8220;safe&#8221; climate change is often decided by those who are not yet feeling climate impacts, and discounts lived experiences of climate change occuring here and now. Climate justice futures will need to address historical marginalizations to mitigate emissions and pursue energy democracy, as well as to address the losses and damages created by the interaction of climate change and social inequality both currently and in the future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span class=\"s2\">Emily is a graduate student in Geography at UCSB, a co-founder of the Climate Justice Project, and a member of 350 Santa Barbara. She did her undergraduate degree at UCSB,\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">graduating in 2013 with a B.S in environmental studies. While at UCSB, she interned with the NASA DEVELOP Program and cofounded the Fossil Free UC campaign.<\/span><span class=\"s2\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">After graduating, Emily worked for the California Student Sustainability Coalition as a Campaign Director for Fossil Free, and cofounded the Climate Justice Project (CJP). With CJP, she attended COPs 19, 20, and 21, where she grew an interest in how climate solutions are often pitted against climate justice on local, national, and international scales, and became active in demanding youth have a voice in the negotiations process.\u00a0In 2015, she joined the Climate Hazards Group as a researcher. Her\u00a0research and organizing focus is at the intersection of\u00a0climate impacts, extractivism, political ecology, accountability, and policy, all within a frame of climate justice.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div  style='height:20px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-24  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_hr '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Panel 2: The Global Climate Justice Movement in the Age of Crisis, Part Two\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?p=17168\">visit panel<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<div  style='height:20px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-25  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_hr '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Climate justice in the era of Trumpism (and capitalist crisis)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Patrick Bond<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Bond-Santa-Barbara-July-2017.pdf\">View slides<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The transition from apartheid to democracy in South Africa has lessons for those concerned about Donald Trump\u2019s climate politics and progressive responses \u2013 in part because Nelson Mandela\u2019s call for sanctions against the Pretoria regime helped to financially destabilise and morally delegitimise the white power structure. That strategy, fuelled by local protests, ultimately split away major corporations from the racist state in 1985, leading to democracy in 1994. Aware of this legacy, Naomi Klein and Joseph Stiglitz (amongst others) have called for sanctions against the United States on grounds of climate irresponsibility. There are a great many reasons to establish a sanctions movement against not only Trump (for he may be impeached in coming years) but also the politics of proto-fascist \u2018Trumpism\u2019, for this regime is genuinely a threat to humanity:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">accelerated climate change caused by relaxation of environmental regulations<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">Pentagon\u2019s \u2018first-strike\u2019 nuclear capability amidst worsening North Korea and Iran conflicts<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">extreme military aggression in Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan \u2013 including rising Islamaphobia<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">heightened tension with China<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">renewed US alliances with authoritarian regimes<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">trade wars, corporate investment deals, tax dodging and reactionary fiscal policy<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">macro-economic mismanagement in an era of stagnation yet high volatility<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">new restrictions to immigration, refugees and development aid<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">fusions of reactionary socio-cultural, political tendencies in US society with a charismatic state leader backed by most mega-corporate interests<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">the need for solidarity with US peoples, especially along racial, ethnic, gender and class lines.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">To be sure, the July 2017 G20 Hamburg meeting essentially gave Trump a pass. And most importantly, US social movements have not yet asked for sanctions solidarity (although wide-ranging Trump-related micro-boycotts are emerging). But since his rule threatens planetary survival, we are obliged to contemplate what aspects of global capitalist crisis might make Trumpism more vulnerable to global people\u2019s sanctions, as a precursor to the rest of the world lowering our vulnerability levels to environmental, economic and geopolitical catastrophes in the period immediately ahead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span class=\"s1\">Patrick Bond is professor of political economy at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and honorary professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal Centre for Civil Society which he directed from 2004-16. He is the author of <i>Politics of Climate Justice <\/i>(UKZN Press, 2012) and he edited several other books on climate policy. His publications mainly document neoliberalism, sub-imperialism and political ecology in South Africa, e.g. <i>Elite Transition <\/i>(2014), <i>South Africa \u2013 The Present as History <\/i>(with John Saul, 2014), <i>Talk Left, Walk Right <\/i>(2006), <i>Against Global Apartheid <\/i>(2003), <i>Unsustainable South Africa <\/i>(2002) and <i>Cities of Gold, Townships of Coal <\/i>(2000). His PhD research was conducted at the Johns Hopkins University Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering under David Harvey\u2019s supervision during the early 1990s. Since then he has also taught or researched at Johns Hopkins (public health), York University (politics, environment), California-Berkeley (geography), Gyeongsang University (political economy) and Africa University (development studies).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe Confluence of Alternatives\u201d \u2013 An Indian Initiative<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Pallav Das<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Contemporary India is going through a perplexingly critical time in its economic development. The neoliberal fundamentalist agenda being foisted on the Indian people by its power elite has inflicted the worst forms of inequality on the society. Today, the richest 1% of the country accounts for nearly half of the country\u2019s total private wealth, about $1.75 trillion! The story of the underprivileged, however, is quite different. Thirty years ago before the country opened up its economy, India accounted for about one-fifth of the world\u2019s poorest. Today, close to one third of that category, or about 400 million, live in India. These economic choices have also had a disastrous impact on India\u2019s environment. Home to six of the ten most polluted cities in the world, its natural resources being plundered rapaciously and its weather patterns becoming increasingly erratic, unreliable and often lethal, the country seems to be hurtling ever forward towards ecological mayhem.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Despite this bleak and overwhelming picture, however, there are significant efforts being made by the civil society to construct alternative paradigms and pathways towards a world that is sustainable, equitable and just. Vikalp Sangam, or the Confluence of Alternatives, is one such initiative, which is trying to explore and understand alternative thinking and organizing on a large spectrum of economic, social and environmental issues in India. The chief aim of the endeavor is to create a platform where alternatives, which take the earth away from ecological self-destruction and the bitter calcification of economic inequality, reach a large audience and become viable for discussion, analysis and eventual replication in other places. This paper will discuss how the Vikalp Sangam vision is unfolding in India.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Pallav Das has pursued a unique twin track career in environmental conservation and creative communications. As a conservation professional and activist, Pallav has spent years exploring the Himalayan wilderness, researching and writing on the ecology of wetlands and alpine areas, building grass-roots networks to promote sustainable environmental policies, and analyzing and advocating public policies for biodiversity and habitat conservation. Pallav\u2019s involvement with environmental campaigns goes back to the late seventies when he co-founded one of the first environmental action groups in India, called Kalpavriksh (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kalpavriksh.org\/\">www.kalpavriksh.org<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">As a communications expert, Pallav has designed and launched innovative campaigns, produced incisive documentaries, developed communications strategies, and founded and led both private and non-profit organizations. Pallav has documented some of India\u2019s most pressing development challenges through his film work, including films on violence against women and the threat of HIV\/AIDS among street children. As a student of politics and social anthropology, Pallav is keen to help build a productive space at the confluence of ecology, politics and communications. He is currently in the process of launching a website (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.radicalecologicaldemocracy.org\">www.radicalecologicaldemocracy.org<\/a>) with Ashish Kothari, his colleague from Kalpavriksh, India. The website is an attempt at providing a platform for exchanging analysis, ideas, activist initiatives and news etc. on next systems and attempts at creating alternatives world wide, which challenge the current neo-liberal orthodoxy.<\/p>\n<p><em>Militant Particularism and Ecosocialism<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Brad Hornick<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">For Ecosocialists, ecological alternatives are not possible within the framework of capitalism, so the climate movement must articulate socialist demands alongside transitional concrete ecological demands and reforms. The intellectual\u2019s role within movements is both to engage with and empower local militancy, but also maintain theoretical distance in order to direct movements strategically. I discuss recent debates within the ecosocialist community featuring Richard Smith and John Bellamy Foster, using David Harvey\u2019s concept of \u201cmilitant particularlism\u201d to elaborate the paradoxes of ecosocialist organizing (see attached).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Brad Hornick has been a climate justice activist in Vancouver, Canada and is presently organizing with <a href=\"http:\/\/systemchangenotclimatechange.org\">systemchangenotclimatechange.org<\/a>. He is a PhD candidate at Simon Fraser University working on a dissertation entitled: \u201cClimate, Capitalism, Existentialism: Observing the Movement.\u201d His discussion piece is entitled \u201cHarvey, Klein, Smith, Foster: Militant Particularism and Ecosocialism,\u201d published in <em>New Politics<\/em>, Summer 2017.<\/p>\n<p><em>Climate Justice as Climate Realism<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Tom Athanasiou<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">This video (and sorry if it\u2019s a bit long) presents a draft summary of a book in progress.\u00a0 In it, I attempt to lay out the basics of what I see as true climate realism.\u00a0 To wit, this is an argument for a justice-forward strategy aimed at stabilizing the climate system within capitalism.\u00a0 The argument, to be explicit, is that we haven\u2019t the time to \u201cget past capitalism\u201d before we can stabilize the climate.\u00a0 This argument, of course, is based on the climate science.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">My core claim is that at the highest level, we only need two things to save ourselves.\u00a0 The first is indeed a thoroughgoing green technology revolution, but the second is a high-cooperation world, and it\u2019s long past time to focus on the second.\u00a0 And on the unforgiving fact that a high-cooperation world is not and will never be possible at anything like today\u2019s obscene level of economic and social stratification.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Along the way, I try to hit a lot of bases.\u00a0 One key section \u2013 though it doesn\u2019t work that well without slides \u2013 attempts to lay out a typology of the climate justice challenges that are now before us.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"mailto:toma@ecoequity.org\">Tom Athanasiou<\/a> is a climate-equity specialist.\u00a0 He founded and coordinated the international Climate Action Network\u2019s <em>Equity Working Group<\/em>, which was active in the years before Paris.\u00a0 Currently, he co-directs <em>the Climate Equity Reference Project<\/em>, a long-term modeling and policy initiative designed to advance equity as a driver of extremely ambitious global climate mobilization, and is also one of the organizers of the <em>Civil Society Equity Coalition<\/em>, which remains active within the climate negotiations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Tom\u2019s principle interest is distributional justice, in the context of an emergency global climate mobilization, which he hopes to live to see.<strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>As a writer, he is the author of <em>Divided Planet: the Ecology of Rich and Poor<\/em> and the co-author of <em>Dead Heat: Global Justice <\/em>and<em> Global Warming<\/em> and <em>Greenhouse Development Rights: The Right to Development in a Climate Constrained World<\/em>.\u00a0 He is now writing a new book, tentatively titled <em>Fair Enough? Justice and Technology in the Greenhouse Century.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><em>How the Unist\u2019ot\u2019en are arresting Pipelines and asserting sovereignty<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span class=\"s1\">Leah Temper<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span class=\"s1\">Since 2011, The Unist\u2019ot\u2019en camp in North-Western British Colombia,\u00a0Canada, have been maintaining a check-point controlling access through\u00a0their territory to stop government and industry plans to build several\u00a0gas and oil pipelines through their territory. These pipelines form\u00a0part of an energy corridor that aim to unlock the vast energy reserves\u00a0of the tar sands and transport fracked gas with disastrous\u00a0implications for the climate. The camp was established to oppose these\u00a0projects, to defend the sacred headwaters, the salmon that spawn there\u00a0and to maintain their autonomy over their unceded lands.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">In this presentation I will present a video I directed and filmed at\u00a0the camp in 2013. It shows how against all odds, the Unist\u2019ot\u2019en camp\u00a0is succeeding in stopping up to 7 pipelines, holding up billions in\u00a0investment and keeping millions of barrels (and cubic metres) of\u00a0fossil fuels under the ground. It also shows how the camp, beyond\u00a0being a simple movement of resistance, is creating a new intentional\u00a0community, informed by a millennia old relationship with the territory\u00a0and natural law, but through a constant process of re-imagination.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><b><\/b><span class=\"s1\">The Unist\u2019ot\u2019en camp interrupts the flows of capital and goods,\u00a0however it is also a space for enactment of a living anti-capitalist\u00a0and post-petroleum alternative, informed by an ancient system of\u00a0values on how to create sustainable relationships with the material\u00a0world and\u00a0 transformative politics of decolonisation that revalue,\u00a0reconstruct, and redeploy Indigenous cultural practices through a\u00a0transformative praxis. This includes the recent establishment of a\u00a0healing center for indigenous youth and experimentation into\u00a0low-carbon technologies and ways of being.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><b><\/b><span class=\"s1\">Welcome to the gateway of meaningful decolonization.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><b><\/b><span class=\"s1\">Corridors of Resistance is an EJOLT Video directed by Leah Temper,\u00a0edited by Siobhan McKeon and Claudia Medina with camera by Fiona\u00a0Becker and Leah Temper. It accompanies a report on Climate Justice:\u00a0Refocusing resistance for climate justice. COPing in, COPing out and\u00a0beyond Paris Including an article on the camp with the title:\u00a0Decolonising and decarbonising: How the Unist\u2019ot\u2019en are arresting\u00a0pipelines and asserting autonomy (Leah Temper and Sam Bliss).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span class=\"s1\">Leah Temper is a trans-disciplinary scholar-activist specialized\u00a0in Environmental Justice Politics, Ecological Economics and Political\u00a0Ecology based at the Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology (ICTA) at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.\u00a0 She is the founder and co-director of the Global Atlas of Environmental\u00a0Justice (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ejatlas.org\/\"><span class=\"s2\">www.ejatlas.org<\/span><\/a>) and is currently the principal investigator\u00a0of ACKnowl-EJ (Activist-academic Co-production of Knowledge for\u00a0Environmental Justice), a project looking at how transformative\u00a0alternatives are born from resistance. Previously, she was the\u00a0Director of USC Canada\u2019s Seeds of Survival Program International, and the scientific coordinator of the EJOLT Project, where she co-edited several reports on Climate Justice and Leaving Oil in the Soil. She has directed and shot several short documentary films about Degrowth, recycler\u2019s movements and climate artivism and resistance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><div  style='height:20px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-26  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_hr '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Panel 3: Artivism\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?p=17194\">visit panel<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><div  style='height:20px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-27  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_hr '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">The SeaChange Voyage: Artivism in the Anthropocene<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span class=\"s1\">Kevin Buckland<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span class=\"s1\">In 2014 a group of artivists crafted a flotilla of fragile paper-mache canoes and embarked down the Hudson River, following the supply chain of fracked Bakken crude oil and defending the waters as a public commons. In July 2017 a mix of First Nations, local and international artists returned to the river on a solar-powered vessel, weaving together stories of resistance and resilience in the age of the climate crisis. This piece looks at the recent SeaChange Voyage as an example of engaged arts activism and cultural organizing (\u201cartivism\u201d) that is both working towards addressing immediate impacts to our water and climate, and working to heal some of the colonial and extractivist relationships with the land, water and eachother.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span class=\"s1\">Through a multi-layered strategy of 1) supporting the deepening of personal relationships to water, 2) storytelling along supply chains: from the frontlines of Standing Rock to the Hudson River watershed 3) and supporting relationships among local activists and local artists, the SeaChange Voyage is exploring models of activism that build community as they resist common dangers, and opens an intersectional discourse around the waters and climate as a commons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span class=\"s1\">Kevin Buckland is an independent artivist (artist+activist) who has spent the past decade working across all scales of the Global Climate Justice Movement, primarily as the<i>Global Artivist Coordinator <\/i>with <a href=\"http:\/\/350.org\/\"><span class=\"s2\">350.org<\/span><\/a> (2009-2015). From UN Climate summits to squatted hospitals, Kevin uses a myriad of forms from street-theater to performance and mass mobilizations to promote the use of creativity in the work of re-creating our world, and supports the strategic engagement of artists in re-conceiving the concept of activism. Recently, he has been looking more at<a href=\"http:\/\/longreads.tni.org\/state-of-power\/activism-in-the-anthropocene-organizing-cultures-of-resilience\/\"><span class=\"s2\"> <i>how<\/i> we organize than <i>what<\/i> we organize<\/span><\/a>. As a writer he has self-published \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/issuu.com\/breathing.gezi\/docs\/breathing_gezi\"><span class=\"s2\">Breathing Gezi<\/span><\/a>\u201d, a first-hand account of the Gezi Park occupation, and published numerous blog-posts and essays with <a href=\"http:\/\/350.org\/\"><span class=\"s2\">350.org<\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redpepper.org.uk\/istanbul-a-tree-grows-in-gezi\/\"><span class=\"s2\">redpepper.org.uk<\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2014\/09\/19\/oil-and-water-on-the-two-way-river\/\"><span class=\"s2\">counterpunch<\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/corporate-responsibility\/artist-kevin-buckland-contemplates-endangered-beauty-in-the-arctic-circle-video.html\"><span class=\"s2\">treehugger.com<\/span><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ejolt.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/EJOLT-6.63-73.pdf\"><span class=\"s2\">Ejolt Report<\/span><\/a> and others. You can follow him on twitter <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/change_of_art\"><span class=\"s2\">@change_of_art <\/span><\/a>and instagram <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/coloresamor\"><span class=\"s2\">@coloresamor<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Purpose and re-purpose<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Daniel Fernandez<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">A critical question that I ask myself when I perform any task is \u201cwhy am I doing this?\u201d or \u201cWhat is my purpose?\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 As a scholar and an activist, I often wonder where my energies and talents are best spent to make the most positive impact and how my actions matter.\u00a0\u00a0 In this presentation, I ponder the meaning of purpose and re-purpose in a meta-sense, whether it be of materials, energies, or intentions and I consider what some of the strongest actions that I can take are as we face the political, social, economic and environmental challenges that I expect that the future will continue to bring forth at an increasing pace.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Daniel M. \u00a0Fernandez is a Professor in the School of Natural Sciences at CSUMB. He teaches classes in first-year physics, Sustainability Systems, Environmental Studies Capstone, and Infrastructure Systems. He also co-coordinates the Environmental Studies program at CSUMB. Dr. Fernandez research focuses on the\u00a0collection of water from fog, studying techniques to assess the presence of fog and to maximize the collection of fog water. Dr. Fernandez is also engaged with campus-wide sustainability initiatives, and he manages the incipient\u00a0Sustainable City Year Program.<\/p>\n<div  style='height:20px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-28  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_hr '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Panel 4: Creating a Field: Climate Justice Studies\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?p=17200\">visit panel<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><div  style='height:20px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-29  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_hr '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><\/p>\n<p><em>Talking about Some of the Most Important Things We Can as Scholar-Activists:\u00a0 How Can We Create the New Field of Climate Justice Studies?<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em>John Foran<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">What might a sociology of climate justice look like?\u00a0 This talk focuses on two main areas:\u00a0 a sociology of the crisis itself, and a sociology of all the movements which are seeking to resolve the crisis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Here are some of its characteristics:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">We are in a state of multiple crises &#8211;triple crisis involving capitalist globalization, the fraying limits of formal representative democracy, and the pervasive violence that seeps throughout and into our cultures, bound together by, and in turn exacerbating, the likelihood of climate chaos. The interdependency of the several crises means that holistic, relational analysis and visionary transboundary scholarship will be essential to understand and confront climate change, and to create climate justice<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Both the depth of the current crisis, and the central role played by the climate disruption that exacerbates it, suggest that our activism around climate change may open a window to moving beyond capitalism in our lifetime.\u00a0 It seems evident that only<em> a strong and vigorous climate justice movement on a global scale <\/em>has the capacity to force governments to stand up to the economic and political forces of carbon capitalism.\u00a0 Movements become even stronger when to a widely felt culture of opposition and resistance they add a positive vision of a better world, an alternative to strive for that could improve or replace what exists. We might call these positive, alternative visions \u201cpolitical cultures of <em>creation<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">In the long run, the only real systemic \u201csolution\u201d to the crisis is a broad yet at the same time more radical climate justice movement willing to confront the root causes of the crisis, including capitalism, and strong enough to decisively cut emissions in a just way.\u00a0 Our task is to widen and radicalize climate justice movements everywhere we can, preparing the ground in ourselves and a new generation for the longer anti-capitalist project of deep social transformation in the direction of an ecologically sustainable, socially just, and deeply democratic global future.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">My academic specialty is movements for radical social change, both 20th century revolutions <strong>\u2013<\/strong> my 2005 book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=5&amp;ved=0ahUKEwiR5ZbR5e3UAhVq0oMKHfL0BwEQFgg5MAQ&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fanticapitalismfaq.com%2Fgsreadings%2F2015%252001%252006%2FForan_-_Taking_Power--On_the_Origins_of_Third_World_Revolutions.pdf&amp;usg=AFQjCNFXpfcT_bM5VhlFiR565Pea4oAzLg&amp;cad=rja\"><em>Taking Power:\u00a0 On the Origins of Twentieth Century Revolutions in the Third World<\/em><\/a> is free <strong>\u2013<\/strong> and 21st century movements for radical social change, from the Zapatistas and the global justice movement to Occupy, the Arab Spring, and now, esp. the global climate justice movement (see \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/brock.scholarsportal.info\/journals\/index.php\/SSJ\/article\/view\/1036\/1006\">Beyond Insurgency to Radical Social Change:\u00a0 The New Situation<\/a> (2014).<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I now work passionately as a scholar-activist on, for, and within the global climate justice movement, which I see as at the center of the struggle for any prospect of achieving social justice and radical social change in the 21st century.\u00a0 A lot of my work is published at www.resilience.org.\u00a0 It can also be found on the websites of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iicat.org\/john-forans-iicat-research-portal\/\">International Institute of Climate Action and Theory<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.climatejusticeproject.org\">Climate Justice Project<\/a>.\u00a0 I am an active member of System Change Not Climate Change, the Green Party of California, and Santa Barbara 350.<\/p>\n<p><em>Linking Environmental Justice and Climate Justice through Academia\u00a0and the Prison Industrial Complex<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">David Pellow<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">In this chapter, I link the field of Environmental Justice (EJ) studies to the emergent field of Climate Justice (CJ) Studies by examining some links between and among universities, prisons, and EJ\/CJ struggles. Because CJ and EJ are tightly interwoven discourses, practices, and visions of social change, I argue that we can illuminate those linkages in practice by connecting the institutions of academia and the prison system to CJ and EJ politics particularly in relation to divestment campaigns, because these institutions are instruments of social oppression and ecological harm. Specifically, I demonstrate that prisons and universities actively contribute to environmental racism and climate change through planning decisions and investments that support fossil fuel economies and place ecosystems and human health at great risk.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">David N. Pellow is the Dehlsen Chair and Professor of Environmental Studies and Director of the Global Environmental Justice Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara where he teaches courses on social change movements, environmental justice, human-animal conflicts, sustainability, and social inequality. His teaching and research focus on ecological justice issues in the U.S. and globally. His books include: <em>What is Critical Environmental Justice? <\/em>(forthcoming); <em>Total Liberation: The Power and Promise of Animal Rights and the Radical Earth Movement; The Slums of Aspen: Immigrants vs. the Environment in America\u2019s Eden <\/em>(with Lisa Sun-Hee Park); <em>Resisting Global Toxics: Transnational Movements for Environmental Justice<\/em>; <em>The <\/em><em>Silicon Valley of Dreams: Environmental Injustice, Immigrant Workers, and the High-Tech Global Economy<\/em> (with Lisa Sun-Hee Park); and <em>Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago<\/em>. He has served on the Boards of Directors for Global Response, The Global Action Research Center, the Center for Urban Transformation, the Santa Clara Center for Occupational Safety and Health, Greenpeace USA, and International Rivers.<\/p>\n<p><em>For Climate Justice Studies &#8211; Focus on the Object \u2014 Pedagogical Spectacles of Power Counter-Power \u2014<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Richard Widick<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Creating the field of Climate Justice Studies will require sustained reflection on what such a discipline should take as its central objects of investigation.\u00a0 In this talk I argue from theoretical grounds and empirical evidence, derived from years of participatory observation inside the UN climate talks, that one key object of Climate Justice Studies must be the public sphere <em>spectacle of power<\/em> that is the yearly convocation of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conferences of the Parties. \u00a0Power understood dialectically always begets resistance, and so we arrive at the yearly rhythm of power and counter-power putting themselves on display \u2026 a pedagogy of masses tuning into the hyper-mediated public struggles that I see reproducing and potentially reshaping both globalization and the unfolding climate crisis.\u00a0 From our temporal vantage point here, early in the 21<sup>st<\/sup> century, I see future decades of perpetual public sphere struggle over global climate policy through the historical lens of the preceding decades of struggle over global economic policy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Richard Widick, Sociologist &amp; Visiting Scholar at the Orfalea Center for Global &amp; International Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara; Director &amp; Co-founder with John Foran, International Institute of Climate Action &amp; Theory (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.iicat.org\/\">IICAT<\/a>); CEO &amp; Founder, Metroglobe Productions (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metro-globe.com\/\">MGP<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><em>Indigenous Climate Change Studies: Indigenizing Futures, Decolonizing the Anthropocene<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Kyle Powys White<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span class=\"s1\">Indigenous and allied scholars, knowledge keepers, scientists, learners, change-makers, and leaders are creating a field to support Indigenous peoples\u2019 capacities to address anthropogenic (human-caused) climate change. Indigenous studies often reflect the memories and knowledges that arise from Indigenous peoples\u2019 living heritages as societies with stories, lessons, and long histories of having to be well-organized to adapt to seasonal and inter-annual environmental changes. At the same time, our societies have been heavily disrupted by colonialism, capitalism, and industrialization. As a Potawatomi scholar-activist working on issues Indigenous people face with the U.S. settler state, I perceive at least three key themes reflected across the field that suggest distinct approaches to inquiries into climate change &#8212; which I will discuss in the brief presentation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Kyle Whyte holds the Timnick Chair in the Humanities at Michigan State University. He is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Community Sustainability, a faculty member of the Environmental Philosophy &amp; Ethics graduate concentration, and a faculty affiliate of the American Indian &amp; Indigenous Studies and Environmental Science &amp; Policy programs. He is\u00a0Potawatomi and an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. His research, teaching, training, and activism address moral and political issues concerning climate policy and Indigenous peoples and the ethics of cooperative relationships between Indigenous peoples and climate science organizations. His work has recently extended to cover issues related to Indigenous food sovereignty.<\/p>\n<div  style='height:20px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-30  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_hr '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Panel 5: India: The F(r)iction of Nuclear as a Climate Solution: Tales from India\u2019s Nuclear Renaissance\u00a0(<a href=\"https:\/\/live-ehc-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?p=17207\">visit panel<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><div  style='height:20px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-31  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_hr '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><\/p>\n<p><em>Making the Invisible Visible: Documenting Nuclear Radiation with a Camera<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Ashish Birulee<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Since the nuclear era has begun, like many other countries India also started exploring uranium deposits for the purpose of making nuclear weapons and generating nuclear energy.\u00a0 However, the uranium comes at a colossal human cost. In this case, those paying the price are India\u2019s Indigenous population. Unfortunately uranium deposits are mostly found in Indigenous belts and this has become a curse for them. Displacement and health issues have become major problems. The land is turning into another Chernobyl and Hiroshima of sorts. The government refutes the allegations and refuses to acknowledge the problems. In other words the government is taking advantage of the vulnerability of native people. Thus, some serious questions arise, such as \u201cWhy is the nuclear waste is being dumped in Indigenous lands, and why can\u2019t it be dumped in the capital city or in non-tribal areas?\u201d Most countries are truly going green after the Fukushima tragedy but still the Indian government is not concerned.\u00a0 The government\u2019s false pride in pursuing nuclear power is actually a push more towards destruction. While many in the public have educated themselves, it is actually the government that needs to be educated on this issue.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">In my presentation, I will try to bring attention to the social problems and environmental damages from the perspective of Indigenous peoples. I will focus on Indigenous peoples\u2019 connections with the environment, discuss my activist work through photography, and describe why I see this profession as critical to revealing the invisible world of radiation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Ashish Birulee is an Adivasi photojournalist and an activist with the Jharkhandi Organization Against Radiation who has disclosed the effects of radiation caused by uranium poisoning in Jadugoda, India.\u00a0 He has been documenting impacts of radiation on local people to bring awareness. One of his photo essays is \u201cJadugoda: Drowning in Nuclear Greed.\u201d Birulee is the first Indigenous photographer from his community whose photos have been exhibited in International platforms.\u00a0 He is associated with an independent organization (Jharkhandi Organization Against Radiation) which was founded by his father Ghanshyam Birulee. This organization was awarded the Nuclear Free Future Award in 2004 and the Yours Green Brigade award in 1999.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Perils of India\u2019s Nuclear Renaissance and the Challenge of Energy Justice<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">ann-elise lewallen<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">While the world greeted Trump\u2019s plans to withdraw from the Paris Accords in horror, in India Modi seized the opportunity to tout nuclear energy as a climate solution and announced construction plans for ten new nuclear reactors. Since Japan\u2019s 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster many post-industrial nations have opted to eliminate nuclear energy from their energy profiles, primarily Europe, North America, and Taiwan. Facing what observers have dubbed its terminal crisis, the nuclear industry has now pivoted to emerging markets, such as India. This June Japan\u2019s Diet ratified the Indo-Japan Nuclear Agreement, facilitating India\u2019s import of Japanese nuclear components to construct twelve new reactors with French and American partners. Even while India is in the midst of a \u201cNuclear Renaissance,\u201d with ambitious plans to scale up its nuclear capacity from 6870MW to 14,500MW by 2024, and roughly double its reactor count, the Indian people are not convinced.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Across the nation, grassroots communities and pan-India peoples\u2019 movements continue to speak out against this \u201cnuclear insanity\u201d and demand a shift to decentralized forms of renewable energy. Starting with the massive peoples\u2019 movement at Koodankulam in 2011 and citing environmental concerns, economic feasibility, livelihood issues for nuclear host sites, the toxic burden of uranium mining and waste, human and indigenous rights concerns, and the problem of liability, people across India have consistently rejected nuclear energy projects. In this presentation, I will explore grassroots responses to local nuclear projects and introduce their alternative visions that incorporate energy justice and people-centered models of development.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">ann-elise lewallen\u2019s research\u00a0and activism focuses on critical indigenous studies, gender studies, multiculturalism, and\u00a0environmental justice in the context of contemporary Japan and in Japan\u2019s transnational relations.\u00a0In lewallen\u2019s current project, she investigates how discourses of science and politics shape development policy and impact indigenous sovereignty in transnational relationships between India and Japan. She is the author of <em>The Fabric of Indigeneity: Ainu Identity and Gender in Settler Colonial Japan<\/em> (School for Advanced Research Press and University of New Mexico Press, 2016) and co-editor of <em>Beyond Ainu Studies: Changing Academic and Public Perspectives<\/em> (Univ. of Hawai\u2019i Press, 2014).<\/p>\n<p><em>Climate Change and Nuclear Power: Official Narrative and Citizens\u2019 Perspectives<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Kumar Sundaram<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Not only does the Indian state claim to take climate change seriously, but at international forums it also adopts a mantle as a government that cares for its huge population as a developing nation. This gesture allows the government to position itself with the same climate change and emission obligations as other developing countries. Pointing toward already achieved higher levels of industrialisation and living standards in the West, the Indian government wrestles for concessions that it claims would allow a better life for its people. Holding nuclear power as essential to rapid growth of the power sector and overall economic development of the country is a key part of this posture. However, this growth-centric scheme in reality has only meant more concessions for domestic industrial lobbies. Industrial growth of the neoliberal kind in the past 25 years has not actually led to the betterment of common people\u2019s life. On the contrary, it has been a story of large-scale disenfranchisement of the poor, particularly for Adivasi and other underprivileged classes. Nuclear Power also does not fit in a people-centric development model. Nuclear energy fails as a carbon-free technology and as a solution to climate change, and it also leads to a centralised pattern of growth and consumption while a decentralised economy would provide more opportunities to the poor and would sustain livelihoods in rural India.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Kumar Sundaram is a researcher and activist based in India. He is the Chief Editor and Webmaster of DiaNuke.org, which is an important online hub for resources and dialogues on nuclear, peace and environmental issues. He has been writing for journals, newspapers and websites on these issues for the past decade and has received several prestigious fellowships including the Asia Leadership Fellow Program by Japan Foundation last year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\"><div  style='height:40px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-32  el_after_av_hr  avia-builder-el-last '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><div  style='height:500px' class='hr hr-invisible   avia-builder-el-33  el_after_av_one_full  avia-builder-el-last '><span class='hr-inner ' ><span class='hr-inner-style'><\/span><\/span><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-17106","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17106"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17426,"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17106\/revisions\/17426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ehc.english.ucsb.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}