A Conversation with Ross Gelbspan
Monday, September 11
at 7:00 p.m.
Newton North High School
Room 217
Ross Gelbspan was a longtime reporter and editor at the Philadelphia Bulletin, the Washington Post, and the Boston Globe. He covered the United Nations Conference on the Environment in Stockholm in 1972 and addressed the World Economic Forum in Davos in 1998. The author of The Heat Is On: The Climate Crisis, The Cover-Up, The Prescription and Boiling Point, he lives in Brookline, Massachusetts.
Please join us in welcoming Ross Gelbspan as he presents a journalist's overview of the climate crisis. The talk will provide a brief treatment of the science and a look at some of the recent impacts of our increasingly unstable climate. It will also highlight the political, economic and equity dimensions of the climate issue, including its implications for security in a post 9/11 world. It will detail as well a long and effective campaign of resistance by the fossil fuel lobby—and some recent seat changes in the corporate and political arenas. The talk will also outline a set of solution strategies which are designed to reduce global emissions by the 70 percent required to allow the climate to re-stabilize—as well as create large numbers of jobs, particularly in developing countries. That solution also contains the seeds for some of the most threatening non-climate problems facing us today: diplomatic dysfunction, anti-US terrorism and economic stagnation. A truly appropriate response to this challenge could substantially increase the wealth, equity and stability in the global economy, even as it generates a much greater appreciation of the need for sustainability in all aspects of our lives. Finally, a proper response to the climate threat could also provide a pilot model to begin to put democratically-determined boundaries around the operations of multi-national corporations: in short, to begin to democratize the global economy.
Please join us in welcoming Ross Gelbspan as he presents a journalist's overview of the climate crisis. The talk will provide a brief treatment of the science and a look at some of the recent impacts of our increasingly unstable climate. It will also highlight the political, economic and equity dimensions of the climate issue, including its implications for security in a post 9/11 world. It will detail as well a long and effective campaign of resistance by the fossil fuel lobby—and some recent seat changes in the corporate and political arenas. The talk will also outline a set of solution strategies which are designed to reduce global emissions by the 70 percent required to allow the climate to re-stabilize—as well as create large numbers of jobs, particularly in developing countries. That solution also contains the seeds for some of the most threatening non-climate problems facing us today: diplomatic dysfunction, anti-US terrorism and economic stagnation. A truly appropriate response to this challenge could substantially increase the wealth, equity and stability in the global economy, even as it generates a much greater appreciation of the need for sustainability in all aspects of our lives. Finally, a proper response to the climate threat could also provide a pilot model to begin to put democratically-determined boundaries around the operations of multi-national corporations: in short, to begin to democratize the global economy.
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