Voices for the Future--Neoliberalism and the Global Ecological Crisis: Toward a New Future
A Conversation with Climate Change Activist Daniel Faber
Voices for the Future is a podcast series that I co-host with my collaborator Anodea Judith.
The next program is Tuesday, October 24th at 7pm Eastern/4pm Pacific with climate change activist Daniel Faber, and is entitled Neoliberalism and the Global Ecological Crisis: Toward a New Future.
You can attend for free on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84474553723
Climate change is the existential issue of our times, and the damage it continues to exert through the extreme weather it is causing is creating massive displacement for tens of millions of people around the world, along with hundreds of billions of dollars in damages.
Daniel Faber is on the frontlines of climate change activism, and can tell us a lot about its root causes and potential solutions.
Daniel is Professor of Sociology at Northeastern University and Senior Research Fellow at the Global Center for Climate Justice (GCCJ). He is co-founder and Co-Editor in Chief of the journal Capitalism, Nature, Socialism. He is also Director of the Northeastern Environmental Justice Research Collaborative (NEJRC).
His research is focused in the areas of political economy and crisis theory, environmental sociology and policy, climate justice, social movements, classical and contemporary social theory, environmental justice, philanthropy, Central America and underdevelopment, and globalization. He co-founded and worked as Research Director for the Environmental Project On Central America (EPOCA), Earth Island Institute (1984-90), and has published numerous works on the political ecology of Central America.
He is the author of Environment Under Fire: Imperialism and the Ecological Crisis in Central America, recognized by Choice Magazine as a “1993 Outstanding Academic Book of the Year on Latin America.” His most recent work is concerned with problems of environmental injustice and equity in America, and includes the edited collection, The Struggle for Ecological Democracy: Environmental Justice Movements in the United States and Capitalizing on Environmental Injustice: The Polluter-Industrial Complex in the Age of Globalization.
Dr. Faber has produced a number of major research reports relating to environmental and climate justice. Dr. Faber served as Coordinator of Environmentalists for Bernie during the 2015-16 elections, and was a major contributor to the 2016 climate and environmental justice platform of presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders. He is currently writing a series of new climate justice reports for GCCJ relating climate refugees, the climate impacts of corporate-led globalization and neoliberalism, voter suppression, the global pesticide crisis, the case for a Green New Deal and more equitable policy approaches for dealing with climate change. He is also working on a new book entitled The Ecological Contradictions of American Capitalism: Toward a Transformative Environmentalism.
This program will help us understand more fully the root causes of climate change, and also will shine a light toward potential solutions.