Monday, March 12, 2007
Blair to present global warming slideshow on campus
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The USI Sociology Club will host John Blair’s presentation of a slideshow on global warming at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 22, in Forum III in the Wright Administration Building. Blair is president of the environmental watchdog group Valley Watch and teaches photography classes at USI as an instructor in communications. He was one of approximately 800 people nationwide chosen by a nonprofit group called the Climate Project to be trained to present the information in Al Gore's global warming documentary “An Inconvenient Truth.” In January, Blair joined 200 others and Gore himself in Nashville for three days of training. Blair's localized presentation includes information connecting our area's coal-fired power plants to the problem of global warming. According to Valley Watch, this area has the highest concentration of coal-fired power plants in the world. USI senior sociology major Brian Locker, president of the Sociology Club, said, “Sociology of the environment is the study of societies’ interaction with the natural environment. So, to a degree, environmental sociologists study the political, moral, scientific, and religious undertones that help form peoples’ reaction to environmental problems such as global warming.” He continued, “Only through studying the historical background of the causes of global warming can sociologists identify current reactions to global warming. In a sense, global warming is a major sociological phenomenon in that it could change the way societies throughout the world produce and consume goods and services and also alter the way people throughout the world view the natural environment.” Locker can be reached at 812/480-1474. |
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