Critical Tech Talk 6: Clean Energy, Climate Justice & Indigenous Rights

[Marcel O'Gorman]

Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to invite you to the 6th installment of Critical Tech Talk (CTT) this Thursday at 5:00 pm on Zoom. CTT is a conversation series that takes an honest look at tech innovation. The topic is “Clean Energy, Climate Justice & Indigenous Rights.” The speakers are Eriel Tchekwie Deranger and Jen Gobby. Trevor Charles from Waterloo’s Dept. of Biology will be responding.

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/critical-tech-talk-6-eriel-tchekwie-deranger-and-jen-gobby-tickets-663967082417?aff=ebdsoporgprofile

Learn more about the speakers and about Critical Tech Talk here: https://uwaterloo.ca/arts/about/critical-tech-talk

Hope to see you this Thursday, July 20 at 5:00 pm on Zoom!

Best regards,
Marcel

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Critical Tech Talk 6 — Clean Energy, Climate Justice & Indigenous Rights: From extractive, colonial capitalism to equitable, flourishing alternatives.

Thursday, July 20, 2023, 5:00 - 6:00 p.m. | Registration<https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/critical-tech-talk-6-eriel-tchekwie-deranger-and-jen-gobby-tickets-663967082417?aff=ebdsoporgprofile>

About the talk

The climate crisis calls for a massive and speedy transition away from fossil fuels towards energy systems based on renewable, clean sources like the sun, the wind and the tides. But to date, what we’re seeing is a move towards extractive, large-scale, corporate-owned for-profit models of green energy. These so-called solutions are replicating the social and environmental injustices perpetrated by the fossil fuel industry, including the rampant violation of Indigenous Rights and desecration of their lands and waters .

Upholding indigenous rights and fighting for a climate just future for all requires not just a change in energy sources, but a transformation in the very systems of power, governance, worldviews and values that have driven the climate crisis. In this talk Eriel Deranger and Jen Gobby will share their own visions for what this transformation can look like and open up a discussion about how these visions can inspire and ground the work of those in the tech and innovation world.

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Professor Marcel O'Gorman, PhD
University Research Chair
Past President, Society for Literature, Science and the Arts (SLSA)
Founding Director, Critical Media Lab
Department of English
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1
Tel: 519 888 4567 x32946
http://criticalmedia.uwaterloo.ca
http://marcelogorman.net

I acknowledge that I work and teach on the traditional territory of the Attawandaron (Neutral), Anishnaabeg, and Haudenosaunee peoples. The University of Waterloo is situated on the Haldimand Tract, land promised and given to Six Nations, which includes six miles on each side of the Grand River.






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