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Sun, Sep 15
|Ithaca
Abolishing Fossil Fuels: Lessons from Movements That Won with Kevin Young in conversation with Sasha Lilley
Join PM Press at Autumn Leaves for our final event of the 2024 Ithaca is Books Festival, a talk on "Abolishing Fossil Fuels: Lessons from Movements That Won" with author Kevin Young in conversation with Sasha Lilley (Against the Grain, editor of the Spectre series).
Time & Location
Sep 15, 2024, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM
Ithaca, 115 E State St, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA
About the event
Sunday, September 15th, 5pm to 6:30pm
Join PM Press at Autumn Leaves for our final event of the 2024 Ithaca is Books Festival, a talk on "Abolishing Fossil Fuels: Lessons from Movements That Won" with author Kevin Young in conversation with Sasha Lilley (Against the Grain, editor of the Spectre series). Co-sponsored by Cornell's Society for the Humanities and Extinction Rebellion Ithaca.
Climate destruction is a problem of political power.
We have the resources for a green transition, but how can we neutralize the influence of Exxon and Shell? Abolishing Fossil Fuels argues that the climate movement has started to turn the tide against fossil fuels, just too gradually. The movement's partial victories show us how the industry can be further undermined and eventually abolished. Activists have been most successful when they've targeted the…