Date/Time
Date(s) - 03/23/2019
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Location
Trust Arts Education Center
Categories
Michael Goodhart — a professor of political science at the University of Pittsburgh — uses the example of “kayaktivism” to illustrate why efforts to combat catastrophic climate transformation have mostly failed and reflect on how we might do better.
The term “kayaktivism” was coined in 2015 after hundreds of protesters used small vessels (including kayaks) to demonstrate against off shore drilling near Seattle.
Goodhart’s key insight is that scholars and many activists have treated climate change as an argument, when it’s really a fight. Put differently, catastrophic climate transformation is not a scientific or a philosophical problem in Goodhart’s view but, rather, a political problem and we must act accordingly.
Present as part of the Pittsburgh Humanities Festival, a project co-produced by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust that brings together internationally-renowned academics, artists and intellectual innovators.
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