Event Title
Civil Disobedience and Climate Change: Does it Work?
Description
Washington State and British Columbia both are embroiled in debates over proposed carbon export infrastructure: two bitumen pipelines across BC, new coal ports in WA and BC, and numerous LNG projects in BC. There is strong local opposition to most of these projects, which has culminated in 2014 in over 100 people being arrested on Burnaby Mountain in efforts to block exploratory work for the proposed Kinder Morgan pipeline. This presentation will examine the role of civil disobedience as a political strategy in the climate movement. The influence of other factors on Canada's failure to reduce its own greenhouse gas emissions will first be considered. The presentation will then consider the potential impact of civil disobedience on pubic opinion and, potentially, the 2015 Canadian election.
About the Lecturer: Kathryn Harrison, Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia.
Document Type
Event
Start Date
22-4-2015 12:00 PM
End Date
22-4-2015 1:15 PM
Location
Fairhaven College Auditorium
Resource Type
Moving image
Title of Series
World Issues Forum
Genre/Form
lectures
Contributing Repository
Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies
Subjects – Topical (LCSH)
Climatic changes--Government policy--Washington (State); Climatic changes--Government policy--British Columbia; Oil spills--Environmental aspects; Civil disobedience--Washington (State); Civil disobedience--British Columbia
Type
Moving image
Keywords
Carbon export infrastructure, Bitumen pipelines, Civil disobedience
Rights
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Language
English
Format
video/mp4
Civil Disobedience and Climate Change: Does it Work?
Fairhaven College Auditorium
Washington State and British Columbia both are embroiled in debates over proposed carbon export infrastructure: two bitumen pipelines across BC, new coal ports in WA and BC, and numerous LNG projects in BC. There is strong local opposition to most of these projects, which has culminated in 2014 in over 100 people being arrested on Burnaby Mountain in efforts to block exploratory work for the proposed Kinder Morgan pipeline. This presentation will examine the role of civil disobedience as a political strategy in the climate movement. The influence of other factors on Canada's failure to reduce its own greenhouse gas emissions will first be considered. The presentation will then consider the potential impact of civil disobedience on pubic opinion and, potentially, the 2015 Canadian election.
About the Lecturer: Kathryn Harrison, Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia.
