News from the John W. Kluge Center: Event on February 28 - Saving Ourselves: From Climate Shocks to Climate Action

Join University of Maryland Sociologist Dana R. Fisher, journalist Dharna Noor, John W. Kluge Center Director Kevin Butterfield for a conversation on climate change and climate action on February 28, 2024 at 4pm, virtually and in-person in room LJ-119 of the Thomas Jefferson Building at the Library of Congress.

 

Free registration is available here and is valid for both virtual and in-person attendance.

 

Fisher, a recent Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Kluge Center, is the author of “Saving Ourselves: From Climate Shocks to Climate Action.” In it, she argues there is a realistic path forward for climate action—but only through mass mobilization that responds to the growing severity and frequency of disastrous events. She assesses the current state of affairs and shows why public policy and private sector efforts have been ineffective and how, spurred by this lack of progress, climate activism has become increasingly confrontational.

 

Dana R. Fisher is Director of the Center for Environment, Community, & Equity and Professor in the School of International Service at American University. She currently serves as the President of the Eastern Sociological Society, a Non Resident Senior Fellow in the Governance Program at the Brookings Institution, and the chair-elect of the Political Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association.

 

Dharna Noor is Fossil Fuels and Climate Reporter at the Guardian US. She has previously reported for The Boston Globe, Earther, Gizmodo, and The Real News.