07:30 PM : Mistakes We Should Stop Making: How Past Policies Have Shaped Emerging Issues @ Kaul Auditorium

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September 29
The Environmental Lecture Series Presents: Richard White’s Mistakes We Should Stop Making: How Past Policies Have Shaped Emerging Issues. Americans are notoriously a people who live in the present and the future. The past, particularly when it is unpleasant, is something we want to put behind us. Increasingly, however, our gravest environmental problems are legacies of our past. Global warming, ozone holes, the depletion of fisheries, the pollution of waters, soil exhaustion, declining bio-diversity and other environmental problems are not recent phenomena. They are the product of historical processes of considerable duration: in some cases a half century, in other cases a century, and in still other cases even longer histories of human activities. Their pasts seem pertinent to their futures. Richard White is widely regarded as one of the nation’s leading scholars in three related fields: the American West, Native American history, and environmental history. Professor White came to Stanford in 1998 and is the author of five books, including The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires and Republic in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815, which was named a finalist for the 1992 Pulitzer Prize.

7:30 p.m., Kaul Auditorium. This event is free and open to the public.