Bryan Alexander, "Universities on Fire: Higher Education in the Climate Crisis" (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
New Books in Higher Education
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The Importance of Collaboration in the Face of Climate Change
The late philosopher science Bruno Latour had an interesting idea where he asked us to think about the pandemic as a kind of dry run for climate change. And if that's the case then there are some major downsides in terms of thinking about how we might respond to the climate crisis. We also saw many public health responses devolve from the international down to the national or in the case of the US down from the national to the state and below that to the county and city level. But despite all the horrific mistakes, groups and actual crimes in the way that we respond to COVIDWe also responded with a great deal of creativity. I mean, the vaccines are a huge step forward in
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