Coming up next week at SFU Vancouver:
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Public Lecture: Professor John Axsen
Citizen Acceptance of New Fossil Fuel Infrastructure: Value Theory and Canada’s Northern Gateway Pipeline.
Date: January 21. Time: 7pm Place: Rm. 7000, Harbour Centre, 515 West Hastings St. Cost: Free
Proposals to build infrastructure for unconventional fossil fuels are increasingly generating controversy among citizens. This study explores the case of Canada’s proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline (NGP), which would transport unconventional oil (bitumen) 1,172 km from Alberta’s oil sands to British Columbia’s northern coast for export.
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How Climate Change is Reshaping Our Future
Date: January 22. Time: 7-9pm Place: Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre, Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 West Hastings St. Cost: Free, registration required
When you try to picture the future what do you see? A world bursting with human potential, and the technology that liberates it? Or one defined by hard limits to growth, and the rural ideals of earlier generations? Each response to the biggest ecological challenge in human history, climate change, contains glimpses into an uncertain future.
We learn how four of Vancouver’s leading thinkers on environmental change see that future unfolding: and why global warming is already remaking our technology, our business models, our political discourse and our relationship to nature – indeed, our entire culture.
