The Bedrock Lecture Series on Human Rights and Climate Change
January – May, 2018
The online Bedrock Lectures are short, 20 minutes each or less. They were released on the Wednesday of each week leading up to the Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal Session on Human Rights, Fracking and Climate Change. All the lectures are now available below and are also available on the Spring Creek Project’s YouTube page.
- Kathleen Dean Moore, “Breaking Bedrock: Fracking’s Impact on Fundamental Rights” (January 31)
- Reverend Fletcher Harper, “Faith and Spirituality, Human Rights and Climate Change” (February 14)
- Julia Olson, “Juliana v. The United States: Landmark Precedent in Climate Change Litigation” (February 21)
- Robin Bronen, “A Rights-Based Approach to Climate-Forced Relocation” (February 28)
- Bill McKibben, “Large-Scale Changes in Climate and Their Human Consequences” (March 7)
- Stephen Trimble, “Community or Commodity? Why Utah Fails the Moral Challenge of the Climate Crisis” (March 14)
- Debra Marquart, “Small Buried Things: A Poet’s Response to Extraction” (March 21)
- Jacqueline Patterson, “Organizing Across Movements: Advancing Systems Change Through Collective Visioning and Action” (March 28)
- Dr. Anthony Ingraffea, “Shale Gas: The Technological Gamble That Should Not Have Been Taken” (April 4)
- Kyle Powys Whyte, “Indigenous Peoples and Climate Justice” (April 18)
- Josh Fox, “Why Banning Fracking Is More Important than Ever” (April 25)
- Winona LaDuke, “The Next Energy Economy” (May 2)
- David James Duncan, “Heart of the Monster” (May 9)
- Mary Wood, “Atmospheric Recovery Litigation: Making the Fossil Fuel Companies Pay for Cleaning up the Atmosphere” (May 23)
- Professor Wood’s Atmospheric Recovery Litigation Prospectus, 3 pages (11-10-17)
- Anna Grear, “Human Rights, Climate Change and the Politics of Legal Disembodiment” (May 30)
