Bold Action on a Burning Planet: Envisioning an Escalation of Tactics and Increased Community Resilience

Chuck Collins is coming to campus this fall! He is the Director of the Program on Inequality and the Common Good at the Institute for Policy Studies in DC, and the author of a new book, Altar to an Erupting Sun. The book has won praise from Bill McKibben, Kim Stanley Robinson and Winona LaDuke, among others, and asks us to confront our moral obligations to act in the face of climate change. Collins is an expert on economic inequality in the US, and has pioneered efforts to bring together investors and business leaders to speak out publicly against corporate practices and economic policies that increase economic inequality. Altar to an Erupting Sun is written to inspire young people to become politically aware and to take positive action with their knowledge and their lives.

Co-sponsored by the Climate Action Program, the Champlain Valley Unitarian Universalist Society, and Middlebury Friends Meeting