Confronting the issues of our time, inside and outside academia
This week, Dr Megan Blomfield delivered a talk at the prestigious Aristotelian Society, London. Megan's talk addressed responsibility for the climate change problem. Who is responsible for remedying the problem of climate change? One popular answer is given by the Polluter Pays Principle (PPP), according to which such responsibility falls to excessive emitters of greenhouse …
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On January 20th, Center member Megan Blomfield gave a talk on Civil Disobedience at a WU Vienna conference on 'Environmental Defenders – Current Legal Developments and Challenges'. Environmental defenders - understood by the UN as persons “defending environmental rights, including constitutional rights to a clean and healthy environment” - play a crucial role in protecting …
"In recent years, young people have been at the forefront of the fight against the climate crisis. However, formal education curricula have not yet been deeply affected by the climate crisis and this in spite of the fact that the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Paris Agreement, and Action for Climate Empowerment agenda …
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Our very own Josh Forstenzer has begun working with Union of Justice and Synergie Family this semester, investigating what should be the future of education in response to the Climate Crisis. The project is entitled ‘Educating for Catastrophe: What should a Climate Crisis curriculum look like in practice for children and young people, communities and …
By Megan Blomfield In this post, Megan Blomfield discusses their recent article in Journal of Applied Philosophy on treating land as a common good. In a world confronting climate change, new questions arise about how land ought to be used and shared globally. Land has already become scarce relative to the demands of the global economy. Climate impacts and policies …
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Our centre-member Megan Blomfield is giving a talk at the Summer Online Workshop of the Climate Futures Initiative at Princeton Univeristy, which is taking place in August! "The workshop will be online and asynchronous. Twelve authors will provide works-in-progress (WIPs) to registered attendees, including several special invited guests. These WIPs can take the form of …
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The Oxford Climate Society and the Oxford Faculty of Philosophy are hosting a series of online events on the Ethics of Climate Change, bringing "together some of the world’s leading experts in climate ethics — John Broome, Megan Blomfield, Henry Shue and Simon Caney — to showcase the latest and cutting edge work in the area." …
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As we've posted in January, our centre-member Megan Blomfield started off the year 2020 with co-organizing a series of workshops on Land Rights in a Changing Climate in Norway, talking place between the 27th and 31st of January. Since then, she's presented a lot more engaged work, addressing important issues of our time: In February, …
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Next up in the monthly "Philosophers at Red Haus series" (organized by centre-member Matt Cull and Nadia Mehdi) is the topic Climate Change and Climate Strike! When? Friday, November 22nd Where? Café Red Haus Books, 232 Abbeydale Road, S7 1FL Nether Edge, Sheffield "This month we’ll be reflecting on climate change and the recent climate …
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Centre member Megan Blomfield is giving a talk as part of the Off the Shelf Festival (5th-26th of October) at "Ideas Alive at 5.45" about the topic Climate Justice. In her talk, she asks what we can learn about climate justice by thinking about natural resource rights. When? 10th of October, at 5:45 Where? At …
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