False Solutions: Carbon Capture, Plastics Recycling, and Green Colonialism

On April 25, we will host a distinguished panel on a major challenge we face: “climate solutions” that are actually, and only, PR solutions for the fossil fuel industry. False Solutions: Carbon Capture, Plastics Recycling, and Green Colonialism will present three experts’ critiques of strategically significant areas of industry disinformation and deception that are designed to facilitate the continuation of business as usual without opposition from the public.

While the false solutions intersect and overlap in ways we will explore, our principal expert on carbon capture will be Dr. Ana Baptista (The New School); on green colonialism, Dr. Dean Chahim (New York University); and on plastics recycling, Julia Cohen, MPH (Plastic Pollution Coalition). Climate Museum director Miranda Massie will moderate, and light refreshments will be provided.