Author Talk - Is Science Enough: Forty Critical Questions About Climate Justice with Aviva Chomsky

Join the Greenpoint Library and Environmental Education Center for an author talk with Professor Aviva Chomsky, author of Is Science Enough: Forty Critical Questions About Climate Justice. This book examines why social, racial, and economic justice are as crucial as science in determining how we can reverse climate catastrophe. She will be in conversation with author Stan Cox.

While many people understand that we are facing a climate emergency, they may be fuzzy on technical, policy, and social justice aspects. In Is Science Enough?, Chomsky breaks down the concepts, terminology, and debates for activists, students, and anyone concerned about climate change. She argues that science is not enough to change course: we need put social, racial, and economic justice front and center and overhaul the global growth economy.

Aviva Chomsky is a professor of history and the coordinator of Latin American Studies at Salem State University. The author of several books including Undocumented and They Take Our Jobs!, Chomsky has been active in the Latin American solidarity and immigrants’ rights movements for over 30 years. She lives in Salem, Massachusetts.

Stan Cox is a research fellow in Ecosphere Studies at the Land Institute in Salina, Kansas. He is the author, most recently, of The Path to a Livable Future: A New Politics to Fight Climate Change, Racism, and the Next Pandemic and The Green New Deal and Beyond: Ending the Climate Emergency While We Still Can, both published by City Lights Books.

Registration is required for this virtual event. You will receive a Zoom link two hours before the event.