Lunch will be served.
About the Andrew Revkin
Drawing on more than 30 years of experience covering global environmental challenges from the Amazon to the White House to the Arctic, prize-winning journalist, blogger and author Andrew Revkin will argue that humanity would benefit by moving beyond “woe is me” and “shame on you” reactions to this century’s momentous environmental challenges. It’s important to expose destructive behavior and grieve for ecological losses. But climate change and the global mashup of Anthropocene ecology are too big for conventional tools like laws, filters and fences.
The scope and drivers of these problems require a novel mix of urgency and patience, as well as a shift from goals that are unattainable numbers (350 parts per million, 2 degrees, and the like) to actions that build the capacities in individuals and societies that can bend curves of concern toward those goals. His talk will build on ideas first laid out on Twitter in 2013: http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/10/bend-stretch-reach-teach-reveal-reflect-rejoice-repeat/