Berkley Center

This course will focus more narrowly on an ongoing, deeply contentious, and quickly moving subject: climate change, and accordingly, climate justice. Some weeks of the class will focus on historical themes, and other weeks of the class will focus on some relevant philosophical theories, particularly of distributive justice. Guest speakers include practitioners of relevant fields (economics, climate policy, citizen science), particularly from the Global South. The class will focus on the current state of various debates and discussions around specific issues, utilizing guest speakers where possible, with the final weeks of the class open for current events or new developments. Students will conduct collaborative research projects on relating community-scale climate action to global-scale climate targets and on navigating the issues of justice that arise therefrom. This course (PHIL-435) was taught by Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò as a Doyle Seminar in spring 2021. Please refer to the current course catalog for an up-to-date description of the course.