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Maxine Burkett ’98 discusses climate reparations, connections between racial hierarchy and climate change

Maxine Burkett ’98 discusses climate reparations, connections between racial hierarchy and climate change

Rosa Kirk-Davidoff November 20, 2020
“While the disproportionate effects of the climate crisis are starting to receive due media coverage in the current moment of heightened awareness, there’s a century-long relationship between environmental degradation and racial hierarchy that also deserves deeper exploration,” Maxine Burkett ’98 told her Zoom audience on Tuesday, Nov. 17. Burkett presented a lecture sponsored by the Center for Environmental Studies and the Class of 1960 Scholars Program in Environmental Studies, entitled “First Do No Harm: Climate Migration, Reparations, and the Guarantee of Non-Repetition.”
Williamstown’s weak winter: Climate change’s tangible  effect on our campus

Williamstown’s weak winter: Climate change’s tangible effect on our campus

Rosa Kirk-Davidoff January 29, 2020

I was studying abroad this fall, and when I returned to campus for Winter Study, I was hoping for a snowy Williamstown winter. So far, we haven’t really gotten that. On January 11, the first Saturday...

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