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Safekeeping & Humanity's Future - Conversation with Dr. Jean Walton

Safekeeping & Humanity's Future - Conversation with Dr. Jean Walton

FromThe Multi-Hazards Podcast


Safekeeping & Humanity's Future - Conversation with Dr. Jean Walton

FromThe Multi-Hazards Podcast

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Length:
87 minutes
Released:
Oct 10, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

What if we prepared for humanity to live another 10,000+ years on Earth? What can we store away for future generations? What will benefit our descendants as they survive and thrive in the far future? Listen to "Safekeeping & Humanity's Future - Conversation with Dr. Jean Walton" (Multi-Hazards Podcast S03 E02). Check out the Study Guide, click on the top left "PDF": https://multi-hazards.libsyn.com/safekeeping-humanitys-future-conversation-with-dr-jean-walton Dr. Jean Walton Bio Dr. Walton is professor of English at the University of Rhode Island, where she teaches modernism, film, and gender studies. She is the author of Fair Sex, Savage Dreams: Race, Psychoanalysis, Sexual Difference (Duke University Press, 2001) and coauthor, with Mary Cappello and James Morrison, of Buffalo Trace: A Threefold Vibration (Spuyten Duyvil Publishing, 2018). She wrote Mudflat Dreaming: Waterfront Battles and the Squatters Who Fought Them in 1970s Vancouver, published by New Star in 2018. This mini-Bio does not do justice to her, so please check out her longer Bio at the University of Rhode Island website: https://web.uri.edu/english/meet/jean-walton/
Released:
Oct 10, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (92)

Multi-Hazards . . . all about protecting communities. Climate change, extreme weather, (un)natural disasters, pandemics, systemic racism, neocolonialism, neoliberalism, poisonous political trends, etc. These pose a threat to human societies and the natural world. This is a podcast about disasters suffered or averted, with issues facing experts in climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction, anti-racism and many other important topics. It's for anyone interested in protecting your communities, families, your livelihoods or businesses, especially those suffering from this global system that makes many people even more vulnerable. Tune in as we seek solutions to potential risks and also the domino or cascading effects when they overlap and slam into each other. With many, many wonderful, knowledgeable guests and host, Vin Nelsen . . .