Friday, February 28, 2020, 7PM

With the ‘dire predictions’ of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report last October, the introduction of the Green New Deal in the new Congress, and the recent suggestion by author David Wallace-Wells that we have reached the ‘Time to Panic’, Michael Goodhart will discuss why efforts to combat catastrophic climate transformation have mostly failed and reflect on how we might do better. His key insight is that scholars and many activists have treated this 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.

Michael Goodhart is Professor of Political Science, Philosophy, and Gender Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, where he directs the Global Studies Center. He studies democratic and human rights politics, structural injustice, political responsibility, and the politics of the Anthropocene, and he’s published numerous books and articles on these and related topics. His books include Democracy and Human Rights: Freedom and Equality in the Age of Globalization (2005), Human Rights: Politics and Practice (2009), Social Movements and World System Transformation (2016), and Injustice: Political Theory for the Real World (2018). Michael is a scholar-activist, and he is President of The Global Switchboard, a social profit organization that uses a network stewardship model to help make Pittsburgh a more equitable and more globally engaged community. He also serves on the steering committee of the Pittsburgh Human Rights City Alliance and is active in local environmental politics.

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