Howard E. Woodin Environmental Studies Colloquium Series: Climate Struggle A Working Class Strategy for Climate Movement

“Climate Struggle: A Working Class Strategy for the Climate Movement” by Matt Huber, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Syracuse University.

Solving climate change requires taking on some of the wealthiest and powerful industries on the planet. This will require a massive and organized social movement. Although there have been recent encouraging signs (e.g., Sunrise and Extinction Rebellion), no movement yet exists with the kind of power to achieve this. In this talk, I advocate a class strategy that aims to develop a climate politics for the working class (with the Green New Deal as a great starting point). While the climate movement currently is overrepresented by the professional class, I argue the working class could build real power to challenge the fossil fuel industries through both its numbers and its strategic location in the workplace.

Cosponsored by the departments of Geography and Political Science