WHY ACTING ON CLIMATE CHANGE IS SO HARD
(Hint: It’s Not Just Human Nature)

Fall 2024 Lyceum Series

Tuesday, October 8
7:00pm
$5 suggested donation

Dangerous human-caused warming of Earth's climate has been understood for decades, but action has been far slower and grossly inadequate to what the scientific consensus says is needed. Many reasons have been advanced as to why this is the case. Timmons Roberts will lay these out and make the case that it was not an inevitable result of human nature, and that therefore we can change direction, if we address the causes of inaction.  

Timmons Roberts is Ittleson Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology at Brown University and the Executive Director of the Climate Social Science Network. He has taught in and directed environmental science and policy programs at Brown, the College of William and Mary, and Tulane University. Timmons was a James Martin 21st Century Professor at Oxford University's Environmental Change Institute in 2006-2007 and Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution from 2012-2020. He completed his B.A. in Biology from Kenyon College and his Ph.D. at The Johns Hopkins University in the Sociology Department's Program in Comparative International Development. Timmons' research focuses on the politics of climate change. Co-author and editor of sixteen books and edited volumes, and of over one hundred articles and book chapters, Timmons' current research focuses on social drivers of action and inaction on climate change.