March 31, 2023
Dr. Andrew Jorgenson, Boston College Professor and Chair of the Sociology Department, will give a talk titled “Guns Versus Climate: How Militarization Amplifies the Impact of Economic Growth on Carbon Emissions” at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 12 at the MCLA Feigenbaum Center for Science and Innovation, Room 121.
This presentation will investigate how and why national militaries shape the impact of economic growth on carbon pollution.
This event is free and open to the public as part of MCLA’s Green Living Seminar series.
About Dr. Andrew Jorgenson
Dr. Andrew Jorgenson teaches sociology and environmental studies at Boston College.
He also coordinates the Global Environmental Sociology Lab and works in the areas
of environmental sociology, global political economy, the sociology of development,
and sustainability science more broadly. In 2020, Dr. Jorgenson received the Fred
Buttel Distinguished Contribution Award from the American Sociological Association’s
Section on Environmental Sociology for his innovation, publication, and service in
the field of environmental sociology.
This year, he is on track to complete the Fifth National Climate Assessment as an appointed author by the US Global Change Research Program. Dr. Jorgenson is also a new member of the National Advisory Environmental Health Science Council for the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
Dr. Jorgenson’s research focuses on human dimensions of global and regional environmental change in regard to how development, inequality, and the structure of global production and trade networks contribute to greenhouse gas emissions, industrial pollution, land cover change, and relationships between environmental conditions and population health.
MCLA’s annual Green Living Seminar Series continues through April 19, presenting a series of lectures on the theme of “Capitalism and the Environment.” Every semester, the Green Living Seminar Series centers around a different topic, timely and relevant to current sustainability issues. Seminars take place on Wednesdays at 5:30 p.m.
The 2023 series is a presentation of the MCLA Environmental Studies Department. Podcasts will be posted online following each presentation: http://www.mcla.edu/greenliving
About MCLA
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Performer on Social Mobility and ranks first among all Massachusetts liberal arts
schools, which measures how well schools graduate students who receive Federal Pell
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