BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Denver X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Denver BEGIN:VEVENT UID:65-18202@philosophy.colostate.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20240402T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20240402T173000 DTSTAMP:20240320T171504Z URL:https://philosophy.colostate.edu/events/naomi-oreskes-how-market-funda mentalism-has-blocked-climate-action/ SUMMARY:Naomi Oreskes\, "How Market Fundamentalism Has Blocked Climate Acti on" DESCRIPTION:The world has known for decades that man-made climate change th reatens our health\, our wealth\, and even the future on life on Earth as we know it. In our first book\, Merchants of Doubt\, Erik Conway and I s howed that climate change denial was rooted in market fundamentalism: the belief that government action in the marketplace threatens personal freedo m and puts us on the “road to serfdom.”  In our new book\, we show ho w market fundamentalism—linked to the rhetorical framework of the threat of “Big Government”—was cultured\, advanced\, and sustained by powe rful American business interests\, and how this political ideology continu es today to be a major force blocking climate (and other important politic al) action today.\n\n \;\n\n\n\nRegister here for the Oreskes Keynote: Interdisciplinary Science Communication Workshop 2024 Lecture (qualtrics. com)\n\nNaomi Oreskes is Henry Charles Lea Professor of the History of Sc ience at Harvard University. Her essays and opinion pieces have appeared i n the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, the Guardian\, The Times  (London)\, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung\, and other outlets. She is aut hor\, co-author\, or editor of nine books on science in society\, includin g the best-selling\, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obsc ured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming (Bloomsbury \, 2010)\, Why Trust Science? (2019) and Science on a Mission: How Mili tary Funding Shaped What We Do and Don’t Know about the Ocean (Universi ty of Chicago Press\, 2021).  The Big Myth\, co-authored with Erik M. C onway\, was released in 2023. CATEGORIES:Democracy and Civic Engagement LOCATION:Theater\, Lory Student Center\, Colorado State University\, Fort C ollins\, CO\, United States GEO:40.5747751;-105.0807072 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Colorado State University\, Fort Collins\, CO\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Theater\, Lo ry Student Center:geo:40.5747751,-105.0807072 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Denver X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Denver BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR