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| Posted by: | Andrew Wade |
| Title/Position: | J. Clawson Mills Fellow |
| School/Organization: | Architectural League of New York |
| Sent to listserv of: | SESP, SPSSI |
| Date posted: | September 24th, 2013 |
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A lecture on "Climate Change in the American Mind" will be given in the Great Hall of Cooper Union, on Wednesday, Oct. 2 by Dr. Anthony Leiserowitz.
For full information, visit: http://archleague.org/2013/10/climate-change-in-the-american-mind/
Anthony Leiserowitz, Director of the Yale Project on Climate Change, will frame the different ways in which Americans perceive the threat of climate change, how we understand our collective and individual capacity to address it, and how willing we are to act on our understanding. Leiserowitz will dissect and examine the underlying values that are reflected in our various views of climate change, and the extent to which our views are based on cultural predispositions rather than scientific data.
Following his talk, he will discuss the implications of his research with Dale Jamieson, Paul Lewis, and Kate Orff. Dale Jamieson is professor of environmental studies and philosophy at New York University and author of the forthcoming "Reason in a Dark Time: Why the Struggle to Stop Climate Change Failed–and Why Our Choices Still Matter." Paul Lewis is a principal of LTL Architects and a faculty member in the School of Architecture at Princeton University. Landscape architect Kate Orff is a principal of SCAPE/Landscape Architecture and a faculty member in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University.
Their discussion will address how the diversity of our values and understandings of climate change affect our individual and collective capacity to act, and will draw out the significance of this spectrum of views for actions affecting the built environment. This is the opening event of The Architectural League of New York's new initiative, The Five Thousand Pound Life.
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