Collateral Consequences Series: How Climate Change Threatens Democracy
October 3, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Collateral Consequences Series: Climate Change’s Impacts on Democracy
Join us this fall for a seven-part virtual speaker series featuring one-hour discussions at the intersection of democracy and climate change. This series will feature an interdisciplinary array of perspectives, exploring how climate-related natural disasters, extreme weather, and migration patterns can and do affect how we think about democratic representation, elections, and democratic governance in the United States. We hope to inspire proactive intervention that will protect our democratic structures and maintain, if not improve, democratic representation.
How Climate Change Threatens Democracy
October 3, 2025 @ 12:00pm – 1:00pm ET (virtual)
For our second session of the Collateral Consequences Series, join us for a panel discussion with Prof. Austin Beacham (Georgia Tech), co-author of “Climate Change, Political Conflict, and Democratic Resilience” (under review), Prof. Steven Brechin (Rutgers), author of “Will Democracy Survive Climate Change” (2023), and Prof. Sam Deese (Boston University), author of Climate Change and the Future of Democracy (2018) and co-editor of How Democracy Survives: Global Challenges for the Anthropocene (2023), on the challenges and opportunities that climate change creates for democracy and democratic structures around the world.