{"id":37,"date":"2015-01-29T12:19:33","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T17:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/teach-in-50\/?page_id=37"},"modified":"2015-03-19T12:30:04","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T16:30:04","slug":"overview","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.lsa.umich.edu\/teach-in-50\/overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Overview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"3\"><br \/>\nThis is an open public event. It is not limited to members of the University community. Anyone\u00a0interested in climate change \u2013 which should be all of us \u2013 is welcome to attend and participate. Our\u00a0speakers are experienced in addressing general audiences; you will not be weighed down with technical\u00a0jargon or\u00a0endless tables and charts. The teach-in is meant to raise awareness of climate change and\u00a0<span style=\"color: #444444;line-height: 1.7\">to expand the ongoing conversation about possible solutions. We hope you will add your voice to that\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #444444;line-height: 1.7\">conversation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This is actually the second teach-in at the University of Michigan devoted to environmental issues. <a href=\"http:\/\/ummedia10.rs.itd.umich.edu\/flash\/bentley\/bhlflash.html?dep=bentley&amp;file=851831\/B\/851831-B206.flv\" target=\"_blank\">The\u00a0first, in March of 1970<\/a>, opened with a public sledge-hammering of an old automobile, as a symbol of\u00a0pollution and environmental harm. Today, the most serious environmental threat arguably comes from\u00a0global climate change. Our teach-in will examine the dimensions and sources of climate change, relying\u00a0heavily, as the first teach-in did, on the scholarly expertise of our own faculty and supplemented by\u00a0outside experts and activists. We will also explore the search for possible solutions in the context of\u00a0a world that is heavily dependent on fossil fuels and in which economic and political elites are able to\u00a0exert ever greater control and influence over public policy.<\/p>\n<p>In the spirit of the 1965 teach-in, our aim is not to give equal time to climate scientists and science\u00a0deniers; the scientific evidence for climate change is overwhelming. Still, we are not pushing a particular\u00a0line on climate change or advocating for one solution over others. The science is complicated, and\u00a0the possible solutions even more so \u2013 as we will hear from leading experts drawn from the worlds of\u00a0academia, activism, and policy.<\/p>\n<p>Our local Planning Committee, made-up of faculty, staff, and students at the University of Michigan,\u00a0is assisted by an external Advisory Committee consisting of more than a dozen prominent scholars,\u00a0writers, and activists whose work has addressed the multi-faceted challenges of climate change from\u00a0differing angles.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an open public event. It is not limited to members of the University community. Anyone\u00a0interested in climate change \u2013 which should be all of us \u2013 is welcome to attend and participate. Our\u00a0speakers are experienced in addressing general audiences; you will not be weighed down with technical\u00a0jargon or\u00a0endless tables and charts. 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