Diversifying Power: Why We Need Antiracist, Feminist Leadership on Climate and Energy
Fri, Sep 18
|Virtual Talk
Gund Institute sponsored


Time & Location
Sep 18, 2020, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM EDT
Virtual Talk
About the Event
Zoom Link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87011060588?pwd=RThFTXJmMVpocUhwRW5IQWFYeUVZUT09
Sponsor: Gund Institute for Environment
The climate crisis is a crisis of leadership. For too long too many leaders have prioritized corporate profits over the public good, exacerbating climate vulnerabilities while reinforcing economic and racial injustice. Transformation to a just, sustainable renewable-based society requires leaders who connect social justice and antiracist, feminist principles to climate and energy. During the Trump era, connections among white supremacy; environmental destruction; and fossil fuel dependence have become more conspicuous. The inadequate and ineffective male-dominated framing of climate change as a narrow, isolated, discrete problem to be "solved" by technical solutions has inhibited investments in social change and social innovations. But inspiring leaders who are connecting climate and energy with job creation and economic justice, health and nutrition, housing and transportation, are advancing exciting transformative change. Bold diverse leaders are resisting the "the polluter elite" to restructure society by catalyzing a shift…