Confronting climate change: Insight from the nuclear disarmament movement

This talk, on Thursday December 4, 204, at 6 p.m. at the New School (Manhattan), will focus on how to generate the political and social change necessary to confront climate change. The presenters include: Robert Jay Lifton, author of many books, including most recently, Witness to an Extreme Century, currently working on a book comparing nuclear and climate threats, and author of a recent op-ed in the New York Times, “The Climate Swerve;” and Naomi Oreskes, Professor of the History of Science, Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University; author of many books, most recently The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future with Eric Conway. The moderator is Tom Engelhardt, editor, writer, and author; creator of TomDispatch.com, a project of the Nation Institute where he is a fellow.

Register for the event here.