Is there evidence supporting climate change and if there is, how does it intersect with issues of economic and social justice? A Nobel Prize-winning professor, a distinguished author, and an eco-theologian will answer these questions in a series of presentations at Loyola Marymount University.
The series will open Jan. 28, with Jeremy Pal, who was a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. His talk will address the “science behind the rhetoric,” and will clarify our best current understanding of the causes and consequences of anthropogenic climate change.
On Feb. 8, Naomi Klein will talk about her most recent book, The New York Times best-seller “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. Climate.” Klein, an award-winning journalist and author of a number of well-received and influential books, will discuss how we cannot respond to climate change without altering the underlying economic and social structures that drive it. A film version of the book will be screened Feb. 4, at 4:30 p.m. in the Life Sciences Building, Room 120.
Finally, on Feb. 24, the series will wrap up with Sean McDonagh, S.S.C. Father McDonagh, an internationally recognized eco-theologian, author, lecturer, and consultant to Catholic Church leadership on environmental issues, will address the connections between climate change, social justice, and the teaching and intellectual tradition of the Catholic Church.
This series is co-sponsored by the Academy of Catholic Thought and Imagination and the Center for Urban Resilience.
