Patrick Bond: Climate Change, Global Health and Social Advocacy: Connecting Dots and Jumping Scale
Channel: Ed Mays
Date: 2014-11-26

Professor Patrick Bond, School of Development Studies, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa gave this keynote address at a recent conference on Climate Change and Global Health at the Department of Global Health at the University of Washington in Seattle.  Dr. Bond discussed climate change in the context of a social justice issue, addressed the reasons behind  the failure of global governance to deal with it, and laid out strategies for reparations and rebellion.

Patrick Bond is a political economist and prolific author with longstanding research interests and NGO work in urban communities and with global justice movements in several countries. He teaches political economy and eco-social policy, directs the Centre for Civil Society and is involved in research on economic justice, geopolitics, climate, energy and water.

Recorded April 17th, 2014 by Todd Boyle

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