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From record temperatures to extreme weather events, the impacts of climate change are evident around the globe. Yet while the climate threat becomes increasingly clear, the collective nature of its causes and the seeming remoteness of its impacts challenge many of our ethical intuitions.
What is our ethical responsibility to take action against climate change, as individuals and as a university?
As we grapple with different points of view, what are the distinctions between healthy skepticism and dangerous denial, and what is our responsibility to defend science against disinformation? With massive societal shifts necessary to limit global temperature rise below dangerous levels, what level of action against climate change is "enough"?
Members of the MIT community engaged in a conversation about the ethical implications of climate change and our collective responsibility for action. Forum sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Research and Radius.
Date: November 17, 2016
Location: MIT Building 50-140
Time: 5:15 pm - Opening remarks
5:30 - Keynote presentation on the ethics of climate change
• Dale Jamieson - Professor of Environmental Studies and Philosophy; Affiliated Professor of Law and Bioethics; Chair of Environmental Studies Department at New York University
6:30 - Panel discussion on the role of universities in responding to climate change
• Kerry Emanuel - Professor of Atmospheric Science at MIT
• Susan Silbey - Professor of Humanities, Sociology and Anthropology at MIT; Professor of Behavioral and Policy Sciences, Sloan School of Management
• Janelle Knox-Hayes - Associate Professor of Economic Geography and Planning in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT
• Nathan Phillips - Professor of Earth and Environment at Boston University
• Moderated by Kieran Setiya - Professor and Acting Chair of Philosophy at MIT
7:45 - Small-group discussions over dinner
Location: 50-140
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