Class Politics for a Planet on Fire with Dr. Matthew T. Huber from the Syracuse University's Geography and the Environment Department.
Circa 2018-2020 much left energy around climate change in the United States and beyond was channeled into calls for a “Green New Deal.” Advocates implicitly or explicitly argued such a program could appeal to the multiracial working class majority with demands like a public job guarantee and social “green housing.” Many suggest this political push led directly to the Inflation Reduction Act, and its associated attempts to link decarbonization to good union jobs and industrial development. But the 2024 election showed a vast shift in the multiracial working class support toward Trump not the Democrats (this shift of the working class to the right is also a global phenomenon sometimes explicitly in rejection of liberal climate policies). This talk addresses where this all leaves a working-class approach to climate politics in 2025.
- Time: 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
- Location: Brockway Hall, Jacobus Lounge