Climate Crisis

Beyond Your News Feed: Understanding Contemporary Politics

This summer the United States has experienced a number of severe weather events that seem related to climate warming. In the West, weeks of drought and high temperatures have created a tinder box for an unprecedented explosion of wildfires. The hurricane season is heating up and we already have had hurricanes and tropical storms wreaking havoc along the Gulf coast and in Eastern states. Summer temperatures have been high everywhere combined with unusually high humidity along the East coast. Even while we continue to cope with the on-going coronavirus pandemic, Beyond Your News Feed examines, in this episode, the other global crisis of our warming planet. To help us understand how climate change is affecting our planet – ecologically, socially, and politically, Professor Casey Stevens, Providence College Assistant Professor of Political Science joins us for a wide-ranging conversation on these issues. Professor Stevens is an expert on the international politics of environmental sustainability and gives an international perspective of how the world is coping with this crisis.