The Deadly Trade in Oil and Gas

Date
Tuesday October 01, 2024
Time
4:10pm - 6:00pm
Location
West Pauley Ballroom, ASUC Student Union, Martin Luther King Jr. Building — UC Berkeley Campus
About this event




This is a Weinstock Lecture on the Morals of Trade

About this lecture

Oil and gas are the most traded commodities on the planet; they are also the chief causes of the most grievous harm our species has yet faced, the burgeoning climate crisis. This lecture will examine how the export of hydrocarbons, in particular, has become an enormous threat to efforts to rein in greenhouse gasses, and it will examine in particular the role that America–the world's biggest exporter of gas–plays in this ongoing catastrophe. And it will examine the role that non-tradeable commodities–sunshine and wind–might play in easing this crisis.

Note:
There will be resource tables outside the lecture and information from campus and local environmental groups.