WST Lrn C dinner book discussion with Dr. Hugh Crawford
Date(s):
April 1, 2024, 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Location:
Stein study lounge
WST Learning Community students are invited to dinner discussion of Hope Jahren's book The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here, with Dr. Hugh Crawford.
From Amazon: "Hope Jahren is an award-winning scientist, a brilliant writer, a passionate teacher, and one of the seven billion people with whom we share this earth. In The Story of More, she illuminates the link between human habits and our imperiled planet. In concise, highly readable chapters, she takes us through the science behind the key inventions—from electric power to large-scale farming to automobiles—that, even as they help us, release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere like never before. She explains the current and projected consequences of global warming—from superstorms to rising sea levels—and the actions that we all can take to fight back. At once an explainer on the mechanisms of global change and a lively, personal narrative given to us in Jahren’s inimitable voice, The Story of More is “a superb account of the deadly struggle between humanity and what may prove the only life-bearing planet within ten light years" (E. O. Wilson)."
Dr. Hugh Crawford received his PhD in American Literature from Duke University. He joined the Georgia Tech faculty as an Associate Professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication in 1996. A specialist in the cultural studies of science and technology, he has published on literature and medicine, cinema and science, medical imaging technologies, the novels of Herman Melville, and the poetry of William Carlos Williams. He is past president of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts, and former editor of Configurations: a Journal of Science, Technology and Culture published by the Johns Hopkins University Press.