History of the Climate Crisis

CAS IR 322

  • Historical Consciousness
  • The Individual in Community

Explores how the tools of history can help navigate our present-day climate crisis, how factors like colonialism, capitalism, and fossil fuel extraction contributed to global warming, and strategies to seek climate justice in the face of business-as-usual opposition. Effective Spring 2025, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU HUB areas: Historical Consciousness, The Individual in Community.

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