Historical climate discourses and present-day implications
Creating a collective vision statement for the year 2100
Discussing the tension between realism and livable aspirations
Slides from “Visioning Climate Futures”
Faculty Sponsor Dr. Janette Bulkan delivered a lecture on climate discourses based on Tropical Freedom: Climate, Settler-Colonialism, and Black Exclusion in the Age of Emancipation by Ikuko Asaka. Tracing the historical origins of concepts such as climate determinism and climate essentialism, Dr. Bulkan examined the ways in which Canada in particular has engaged with racist climate discourse before identifying emerging global trends of climate discourses in ecofascism and white supremacist violence.