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World-renowned climate scientist Michael E. Mann reveals how fossil fuel companies want you to think that it’s all about you, when it's really all about them.
In a wide-ranging interview related to his new book, The New Climate War, Penn climate scientist Michael Mann explains how Big Oil has muddied the waters of the climate debate. They want us to focus on individual solutions-driving less or eating less meat-which ends up diverting attention from the largest malefactors. Mann argues that to address climate change the right way, we need collective, not individual action, and we have to hold the world’s largest companies accountable.
Keywords: Hockey stick curve, Disinformation, clean energy, social movements, recycling, climate change, climate war, fossil fuel, climate debates, Big Oil.
Guest: Michael E. Mann is Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science at Penn State and director of the Earth System Science Center. A specialist in combining theoretical models and observational data to understand the Earth’s climate system, Mann has published over 200 scholarly publications and five books, including The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet (2021). He is an IPCC lead author and a National Academy of Sciences member.
Moderator: Makena Coffman is the Director for the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Institute for Sustainability and Resilience. She is a Professor of Urban and Regional Planning and Research Fellow with the University of Hawaiʻi Economic Research Organization, and Chair of the City & County of Honolulu Climate Change Commission. Her research interests include climate change, energy policy and alternative transportation strategies.
Produced by the UH Manoa Better Tomorrow Speaker Series for the Hawai'i Book and Music Festival 2021
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