On Fiat Lux Redux, Tuesday, November 26 at 9:00 AM, Bill McKibben presents the Barbara Weinstock lecture on the Morals of Trade entitled The Deadly Trade in Oil and Gas where he examines how the deadly trade in oil and gas has become an enormous threat to the ongoing climate crisis.
McKibben is the Schumann Distinguished Professor in Residence at Middlebury College in Vermont and the author of over a dozen books on the environment, starting with this 1989 book The End of Nature, regarded as the first book for a general audience about climate change.
His work appears regularly in periodicals from the New Yorker to Rolling Stone and he is a founder of Third Act which organizes people over the age of 60 to work on climate and racial justice. He also founded 350.org, the first global grassroots climate campaign, which has organized protests on every continent, including Antarctica, for climate action. In 2014 he was awarded the Right Livelihood Prize, sometimes called the ‘alternative Nobel,’ in the Swedish Parliament. He’s also won the Gandhi Peace Award, and honorary degrees from 19 colleges and universities. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Foreign Policy named him to its inaugural list of the world’s 100 most important global thinkers.
Fiat Lux Redux presents previously aired lectures, conversations, and podcasts originating on the campus of UC Berkeley every other Tuesday from 9am to 9:30am. These often-lengthy original programs have been edited to a 30-minute format by experienced KALX producers. The show’s name, Latin for “Let there be light”, is a reference to the University of California’s motto, which is also Fiat Lux. The show’s goal is to provide listeners with a window into the intellectual and cultural life of UC Berkeley and to showcase the wide range of subjects and diversity of thought and ideas that are present at UC Berkeley.
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