Social Change to Meet Climate Change

<div class="flexinode-body flexinode-1"><div class="flexinode-textarea-1"><div class="form-item"> <label>Description: </label> <p>A lecture by <a href="http://www.sociology.uoguelph.ca/faculty_staff/lynn_mcdonald.htm">Dr. Lynn McDonald </a><br />Deparment of Sociology<br />University of Guelph</p><p>Opening remarks by:</p><p>Dr. Mary Griffiths<br />Senior Policy Analyst<br /><a href="http://www.pembina.org">The Pembina Institute</a></p><p>Lynn McDonald will address how our political and social (including economic) lives prevent us from dealing adequately with today&#39;s climate crisis, to begin the process of altering those institutions to facilitate the required strenuous action. </p><p>Lynn has published extensively on environmental and political sociology, classical sociological theory, and the status of women. She has also pursued a political career, serving as an Member of Parliament and environment critic (1982-1988), and is a former president of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women.</p><p>Sponsored by the <a href="http://www.law.ualberta.ca/centres/ccs">Centre for Constitutional Studies</a><a href="http://www.law.ualberta.ca/centres/ccs"><br /></a></p><p><a href="http://www.law.ualberta.ca/centres/ccs"><br /></a> </p> </div> </div></div>