Climate Change and the Existential Crisis: A Panel on Ethics and Actions

Dr. Mark Stemen
Geography and Planning
CSU, Chico

Dr. Troy Jollimore
Philosophy Department
CSU, Chico

Dr. Randy Larsen
Philosophy Department
CSU, Chico

Haley Adams
Associated Students Sustainability Coordinator
CSU, Chico

What right do we have to protest government inaction in the face of such potentially severe threats to civilization itself? How big does the existential threat need to be before we are called to disruptive action? What right do we have to destroy other living beings and the potential of future generations as we continue to emit dangerous chemicals into the atmosphere in our insatiable need to produce and consume? The panel explored these questions and the effects of climate change on the social contract and principles that hold society together.

Recorded: November 20, 2019