Divest Smith College has invited several speakers to campus as part of our Intersections Lecture Series to talk about how climate change and the fossil fuel industry are intertwined with important social issues like white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, and the military-industrial complex.

For more information on these topics, please explore the suggested reading below.

Climate Change, Conflict and Migration

• February 12, 2016
• Speaker: Christian Parenti, professor at New York University, contributing editor to The Nation and author of Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence
• Suggested Reading
  • Christian Parenti on Climate Change, Militarism, Neoliberalism and the State
  • Michael T. Klare, The Future of Climate Change Is Widespread Civil War
  • Susan George, Globalisation and War

Climate Crisis and Gender

• October 23, 2015
• Speaker: Ceci Pineda, organizer, educator, researcher and founder of RADIKO
• Suggested Reading
  • Eric Neumayer and Thomas Plümper, The Gendered Nature of Natural Disasters
  • MADRE, Climate Justice Calls for Gender Justice
  • Andrew Gorman-Murray, Scott McKinnon and Dale Dominey-Howes, Queer Domicide

Fossil Fuels and Institutional Racism

• October 24, 2014
• Speaker: Jacqui Patterson, director of the NAACP Environmental and Climate Justice Program
• Suggested Reading
  • Jacqui Patterson, Your Take: Climate Change Is a Civil Rights Issue
  • Air of Injustice
  • Manuel Pastor et. al., In the Wake of the Storm