March 16, 2023 (10am to 12 noon)
Seth Klein explores how we can align our politics and economy with what the science says we must do to address the climate crisis. He brings an original and uniquely hopeful take to this challenge. Seth examines lessons from the Second World War – the last time Canada faced an existential threat. Others have said we need a “wartime approach” to climate change, Seth is the first to delve into what that could look like. Canada’s wartime experience, Klein contends, provides an inspirational reminder that we have done this before. We have mobilized in common cause across class, race and gender, and entirely retooled our economy in the space of a few short years.
Seth is the Team Lead and Director of Strategy with the Climate Emergency Unit. Prior to that, he served for 22 years as the founding director of the British Columbia office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), Canada’s foremost social justice think tank. He is now a freelance policy consultant, speaker, researcher and writer, and author of A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency. Seth is a columnist with the National Observer, an adjunct professor with Simon Fraser University’s Urban Studies program, and remains a research associate with the CCPA’s BC Office.
