Please join Wesleyan Professor Brian Stewart for his 10th Annual Earth Week Rant, #notnormal: understanding change and
demanding action. It will be held twice: Wednesday at 7 p.m., and Thursday at noon at two different locations on the Wesleyan campus (see announcement below for details).
In Brian's words, we find ourselves in a situation that feels
abnormal, wishing for a normalcy (real or imagined) of either the recent
or the not-so-recent past. Why is this an abnormal
age? Is normalcy just around the corner, or are we on the cusp of an
even more abnormal future? I will argue that a surprisingly simple,
nature-oriented way of organizing the information that deluges us can
help us to make decisions as we navigate a murky
future. The body politic is awakening from a long slumber just in time
to internalize this nature-centric approach and to demand a like
awareness on the part of its elected representatives.
P.S. Those of a certain age will recall George C. Scott as Patton in “the war movie for people who hate war movies”. I’m no George C. Scott, but I think of this talk as “the environmental lecture for people who hate environmental lectures”.
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