Read, Watch, Listen: Climate Week

Today starts the Hague Climate Week! 🍁 What happens during the Hague Climate Week?

During National Climate Week from November 11 to November 17, 2024, residents, companies and municipalities organize activities for a better climate. It is a week full of activities for and by the city. Follow the Sustainable Restaurant Route in The Hague, go to the movies or visit the Club Laak festival. There is something for everyone.

You want to dive even more into the topic of climate? Check out this RWL!

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Atlas of AI
Kate Crawford

What happens when artificial intelligence saturates political life and exhausts the planet? How does AI shape our understanding of ourselves and our societies? 

Drawing on more than a decade of research, award-winning scientist Kate Crawford reveals how AI is an extraction technology: from the minerals mined from the earth to the labor drawn from low-wage information workers to the data extracted from every action and expression

Find the book here.

Watch

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
Chiwetel Eijofor

A thirteen-year-old boy's village is suffering from famine, so he decides to build a windmill himself.

William Kamkwamba lives in Malawi and is expelled from school when it turns out that his family can no longer pay the school fees. He decides to take action himself and learns to build a windmill for his village.

The film is based on the autobiography of the same name by William Kamkwamba.

Watch the documentary on Netflix.

Listen

Carmen Gonzales on Climate Change & Migration
Ipse Dixit, Season 1, Episode 656

In this episode, Carmen G. Gonzalez, Morris I. Leibman Professor of Law at Loyola University Chicago School of Law, discusses her article "Climate Change, Race, and Migration," which is published in the Journal of Law and Political Economy. Gonzalez begins by explaining the relationship between capitalism and climate change. She observes that the global North has a moral obligation to address climate change. And she argues that the current models for addressing the problem are inadequate. She advocates for an approach based on self-determination.

Listen the episode here.