Lessons from Cuba: Climate & Environmental Disasters, A Life and Death Question - Webinar

Climate Convergence Metro Vancouver is supporting the below Webinar about Cuba's response to the climate crisis. We encourage our supporters to register and attend.

WEBINAR
Lessons from Cuba: Climate & Environmental Disasters, A Life and Death Question
Sunday, November 23
2 pm Pacific / 5 pm Eastern
Register for Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/OU6tByXgRJuoRwzC1ttaZg#/registration

Twenty years ago Hurricane Katrina was "probably the worst catastrophe" in modern U.S. history, even according to then-Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff. Since then massive wildfires, droughts, and flash floods have swept much of the world with tremendous and deadly consequences.

And more are sure to come – as in the unprecedentedly-powerful Hurricane Melissa that just ravaged Jamaica and Haiti before hitting Cuba. Meanwhile gross environmental disasters like the toxic derailment in Ohio, the 300-million gallon sludge-pond breach in Kentucky, and the 800+ killed by a heatwave in Chicago also rock us here at home.

While climate change is real –a direct product of blind and heedless capitalist production– evidence shows “natural disasters” are rooted in structural inequality and governmental disdain for those who aren’t wealthy.

How must and how are working people responding? Why did revolutionary-though-impoverished Cuba lose only 15 lives when Katrina hit it as a Force Five hurricane when over 1800 people died in New Orleans in a Force Three?

Is it too much to say this a life-or-death discussion? After all, we have only one planet.

Featuring:
Helen Yaffe, Author of "We Are Cuba!", Filmmaker of "Tarea Vida" on Cuba's response to climate change, University of Glascow
August Nimtz, New Orleans native, author, Professor of Africana Studies, University of Minnesota
Frtiz Elder, Veteran Railroad Union Leader

Sponsored by: the Chicago Cuba Coalition, US-Cuba Normalization Conference Coalition, National Network on Cuba