WW 3

Session 8: World War Three

Music:
Daivid Byrne, Talking Heads, "Nothing But Flowers,"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3t5nmgRVMs

 Essential Questions:

• How can a society transform itself to mitigate and adapt to climate change?
• What historical precedents are there for transformative systemic change?
• What will it take to initiate the changes necessary to stabilize the climate?
• How important is the role of people power to create political change?
• Is there a comparison between Civil Rights and Climate Rights? 

Gathering:  "A family story of sacrifice that I remember from WW II is..."

Rick's Rap:

Video:  Bill McKibben, "Do the Math," 350.org, 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsIfokifwSo

• debrief

Closing:  "Something that I learned today..."

Readings:   

• "We literally need to declare war on climate change," Bill McKibben, New Republic, August 15, 2016 

Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it - Mark Twain 

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