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February 12th, 2023
Via Stanford, a recording of an interesting exploration of crises of water around the globe—the flooding of Pakistan, the depletion of aquifers in the American Great Plains, among others which gives rise to the question: what does climate justice action entail for the communities who are least responsible for anthropogenic climate disaster and yet often bear its heaviest brunt?
When the source of life also becomes a source of severe risk and unpredictable danger, what is asked of communities whose modes of everyday life must change accordingly? The 2022 Pakistan floods, which affected more than 30 million people, were caused by unusually heavy monsoon rains and melting glaciers, both of which were exacerbated by anthropogenic climate change.
As we continue to witness the consequences of climate change, Stanford Global Studies’ The Ripple Effect: Water Politics in a Global Context will explore crises of water around the globe—the flooding of Pakistan, the depletion of aquifers in the American Great Plains, among others to ask: what does climate justice action entail for the communities who are least responsible for anthropogenic climate disaster and yet often bear its heaviest brunt? This event will explore local strategies of resilient adaptation as well as their extra-local implications for global understandings of environmental justice, foregrounding the complex entanglements of bureaucratic, legal, and capital power that underlies each crisis of water. This panel discussion will foster an interdisciplinary, transnational dialogue about local resilience and global calls for environmental justice action, so as to envision emancipatory futures both in wait and soon to arrive.