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"author_name": "Fridays for Future International",
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"title": "Why Acting on Climate is so Difficult: Organized Obstruction",
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"description": "This speaker offers an unusal amount of information of why climate change is disbelieved as the world increasingly dive into a climate crisis. Sign up on the right and please invite others to join. ' Timmons Roberts is Ittleson Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology at Brown University and the Executive Director of the Climate Social Science Network. He has taught widely. Timmons was a James Martin 21st Century Professor at Oxford University's Environmental Change Institute in 2006-2007 and Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution from 2012-2020. Timmons' research focuses on the politics of climate change. Co-author and editor of sixteen books and edited volumes, and of over one hundred articles and book chapters, Timmons' current research focuses on social drivers of action and inaction on climate change. After fifteen years studying tensions between the global North and South at the United Nations climate negotiations, he has expanded his research into what explains the failure to address climate change in the United States. Current studies examine lobbying in state legislatures and influence over agencies and commissions.",
"url": "https://actionnetwork.org/events/climatetalks528"
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