Climate, Education and Democracy – A Conversation with David Orr and Erik Assadourian_ Climate, Education and D from Security & Sustainability Forum on Vimeo.
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10/24/2017
Please watch Island Press and the Security and Sustainability Forum in a 45 minute online conversation with David Orr, Oberlin College and Erik Assadourian, World Watch Institute, about climate, education and democracy.
This is a follow up to a recent webinar featuring WWI’s latest publication in its State of the World annual series, “EarthEd – Rethinking Education on a Changing Planet”.
PANEL:
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David Orr –“The elections of 2016 in Western democracies showed the fault lines emerging in our civic culture. They are a dispute between advocates of competing paradigms about the possible and desirable scale of human domination of the ecosphere and who benefits and who loses.”
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Erik Assadourian – “Education alone will not save humanity, but it may play an essential role in enabling people to get through the turbulent times ahead with their humanity intact.”
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Elisabeth Graffy, Arizona State University, will moderate the discussion.
The session format is a panel discussion rather than slide presentations, and audience Q&A.