Environment Forum

2024 Apr 22
2024 Mar 28

The Environment Forum with Sarah Dimick | Juvenilia of the Climate Movement

12:00pm

Location: 

Plimpton Room (Barker Center 133)

THE ENVIRONMENT FORUM

SPEAKER: Sarah Dimick

Please note that this event is open to Harvard affiliates only and registration is required.

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Examining the Ugandan writer activist Vanessa Nakate’s A Bigger Picture: My Fight to Bring a New African Voice to the Climate Crisis (2021) in relation to other...

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2022 Sep 29

The Pentagon, Climate Change, and War: Charting the Rise and Fall of U.S. Military Emissions

6:00pm

Location: 

Thompson Room, Barker Center

THE ENVIRONMENT FORUM

SPEAKER: Neta C. Crawford, University of Oxford

The military has for years (unlike many politicians) acknowledged that climate change is real, creating conditions so extreme that some military officials fear future climate wars. At the same time, the U.S. Department of Defense—military forces and DOD agencies—is the largest single energy consumer in the United States and the world's largest institutional greenhouse gas emitter. In this eye-opening book, Neta Crawford traces the U.S. military's growing consumption of energy and calls for a reconceptualization of foreign policy and military doctrine. Only such a rethinking, she argues, will break the link between national security and fossil fuels.... Read more about The Pentagon, Climate Change, and War: Charting the Rise and Fall of U.S. Military Emissions

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