Transcript Historical Response to Environmental Crisis and a Historian`s

Historical Response to Environmental Crisis and a Historian’s Response
to the question of “Can we afford NOT to stop global climate change?”
Diana Di Stefano
History Department and Environmental Studies Program
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The Teach-In
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The Historian’s Perspective
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Humans and Global Climate Change in the Past
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What Makes Anthropogenic Climate Change Different and Why We Need To
Ask Different Questions
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Why This Isn’t Just a Scientific, Economic, or Technological Problem
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The Dust Bowl of the 1930s as a Lesson
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The Ozone Hole as a Lesson
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Conclusion