The Human Nature of Climate Change

This winter season has been record breaking–many people across BC are still grappling with the aftermath of intense winter storms and some areas continue to be impacted without reprieve. Historic winter rainfalls were made worse by the preceding climate events of the summer when fires and droughts devastated the province. BC, Canada and the world have watched these climate events unfold and be broadcast through the lens of news media.

Climate change isn’t just the result of greenhouse gas pollution. Instead, it can be better understood as the cumulative result of the individual and collective decisions we make everyday which cause this pollution.

That means that climate change is as much a societal problem as it is an environmental problem. That societal problem is our failure to use the truth about climate change to make the kind of informed, rational, and empathetic decisions expected of us in a democracy. In other words, climate change can be understood as a post-truth apocalypse–one that could be almost impossible to avoid.

Join the UVic Alumni Association for this keynote lecture and Q&A session with Sean Holman, UVic’s Wayne Crookes Professor in Environmental and Climate Journalism, to speak to and answer your questions about the human dimension of the climate crisis.

Gain a critical eye to how human action–or inaction–on climate change is heavily influenced by the news media and how we can embrace both the truth and the democratic decision-making that is needed to turn the climate change crisis around. 

Date: Tuesday, February 8, 2022

Time: 7:00 p.m. PT

Location: Zoom Webinar* 

Cost: Free, registration is required 

*Zoom link will be sent prior to the event 

Online registrations for this event are now closed.

 

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