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Location
Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center, 20 North Main Street, Providence RI 02903
Event Website
https://liberalartsmasters.risd.edu/ncss/events/climate-futures-ii
Start Date
5-12-2019 10:45 AM
End Date
5-12-2019 11:50 AM
Document Type
Video
Description
Industrialized energy has long been predicated on a system of racial capitalism and colonialism. We rely on electricity, heat, and fuels that derive value through the historical and ongoing displacement and exploitation of indigenous, black, and Latinx land, labor and life. The Green New Deal could offer an opportunity to not only overhaul this existing fossil fuel infrastructure but also redress the racial capitalism on which it is built. In this dialogue, we will explore some of the tensions that currently exist between the urgent need to move as fast as possible to implement a clean energy transition and concerns that, if this transition is not done right, it could recreate new environmental injustices and new sacrifice zones. We will consider the ways in which environmental justice movements are productively contributing to new visions of energy transition. Finally, we will explore the opportunities that exist for confronting and dismantling racial capitalism through a Green New Deal framework, focusing on policies, strategies, and overarching principles.
Sponsored the Office of Social Equity and Inclusion, Rhode Island School of Design
File Type
mp4
Run Time
1 hr 0 min 19 sec
Speakers
Introductions: Lauren Richter (History-Philosophy-Social Sciences, Department, Nature-Culture-Sustainability Studies Program, Rhode Island School of Design)
Discussants:
- Myles Lennon (Anthropology, Brown University)
- Shalanda H.Baker (Law, Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Northeastern University)
- Jacqui Patterson (Director of the NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program)
Climate Futures 2 | Design Politics, Design Natures, Aesthetics and the Green New Deal, Session 2 - Dialogue: Racial Capitalism, Designs for Energy Transition and the Green New Deal
Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center, 20 North Main Street, Providence RI 02903
Industrialized energy has long been predicated on a system of racial capitalism and colonialism. We rely on electricity, heat, and fuels that derive value through the historical and ongoing displacement and exploitation of indigenous, black, and Latinx land, labor and life. The Green New Deal could offer an opportunity to not only overhaul this existing fossil fuel infrastructure but also redress the racial capitalism on which it is built. In this dialogue, we will explore some of the tensions that currently exist between the urgent need to move as fast as possible to implement a clean energy transition and concerns that, if this transition is not done right, it could recreate new environmental injustices and new sacrifice zones. We will consider the ways in which environmental justice movements are productively contributing to new visions of energy transition. Finally, we will explore the opportunities that exist for confronting and dismantling racial capitalism through a Green New Deal framework, focusing on policies, strategies, and overarching principles.
Sponsored the Office of Social Equity and Inclusion, Rhode Island School of Design
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/liberalarts_climatefutures/climatefutures2019/climatefutures2019symposium/3