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Learning Centre
War & Climate Change:
50-100 Year Perspective
Presented by:
Dr. Ann-Christine Duhaime
Date: April 15, 2026
Evolution designed the human brain to prioritize short-term impacts of decisions over long-term consequences. Climate change poses a particular challenge to how we are designed to set priorities and what we find immediately important. Decisions about war as a way to solve disputes or distribute resources similarly tend to be biased by short-term, rather than long-range decisional timeframes. This talk describes the interdisciplinary, international Climate Change, War, and Health project affiliated with the Harvard Global Health Institute, with many researchers who have been directly or indirectly touched by war. The project’s goals are to study and communicate how effects on health and well-being from the co-occurrence of climate change and war are synergistically harmful to our children and grandchildren’s generations, and how we can best help the public and policymakers make better, more long-range-focused choices, in particular using film. This will be an interactive session with input from the audience welcome.
Climate Accountability in the United States
Presented by:
Lauren O'Brien
Date: March 4, 2026
The fossil fuel industry has known for decades that their products cause climate change, but they lied — and keep lying — while our communities pay the price. As the local harms caused by climate change become more frequent and severe, communities are facing staggering costs associated with recovery, adaptation, and resilience. Just like Big Tobacco and Big Pharma had to pay for knowingly producing harmful products, Big Oil is being held accountable in court by cities and states across the country. This session will walk through the history of the fossil fuel industry’s knowledge and deception in the climate crisis, share climate cost reports including public health costs, and explain how to advocate in favor of climate accountability.