David Barsamian
Tuesday, 3 November 2015
2:30-4:00 pm
Room: B101
Abbotsford Campus
The award-winning founder and director of Alternative Radio, journalist, writer, and activist makes a return visit to UFV to talk about climate change and the environment.
Human beings and the natural world are on a collision course. Human activities inflict harsh and often irreversible damage on the environment and on critical resources. If not checked, many of our current practices put at serious risk the future that we wish for human society and the plant and animal kingdoms, and may so alter the living world that it will be unable to sustain life in the manner that we know. Fundamental changes are urgent if we are to avoid the collision our present course will bring about.” Those words of warning were written in 1992 by some 1,700 scientists including more than 100 Nobel laureates. Here we are, more than two decades later still talking, still drilling and doing very little to protect our precious planet from an economic system that prioritizes profits over the wellbeing of Earth. Canada, with its domestic and global extraction policies, is a major contributor to accelerating climate change.
For information, contact:
Prabhjot Parmar
English Department, University of the Fraser Valley
prabhjot.parmar@ufv.ca
