DAVID WOOD
Events & Workshops
VUCO2
Vanderbilt’s Climate Change ThinkTank (2015)
Topics
1. Prevention and cure. Analysis of various scenarios.
[Economics, psychology, medicine etc]
2. Risk. Difficulty in dealing with improbable disaster, let alone unprecedented but predictable dangers. JG
[Sociology, psychology, business]
3. Alternatives to free market capitalism, as it reaches its limits.
[Business, sociology, history, economics, political theory]
4. Corporate liability. And political accountability. Culpable negligence. The tobacco industry etc. Changes to corporation law.
[Law, politics]
5. Lifestyle issues. Alternative measures of happiness. Consumerism. False desires. Transitions?
[Critical theory, economics, psychology, anthropology, philosophy]
6. Entrenched interests and political corruption. Democratic reform. How to frame the need for release from fossil fuel interests.
[Politics, philosophy]
7. Revolution. What can we learn from the history of revolution, and dramatic historical change? Tipping points. Narratives of change. MB
[Politics, history, psychology, english]
8. International politics. Paradoxes of collective action.
[Business (negotiation), politics, communication, economics]
9. Sustainability. What does this mean?
[Philosophy, anthropology, economics, history, sociology]
10. Humans and non-humans. Mass extinctions, overpopulation, diet.
[Philosophy, biology, environmental studies, history, anthropology)
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