Rhodes Scholars and Transition Studies

Rhodes Scholars are connecting with each other on social,
environmental, and climate-related issues through
Rhodes-Scholars.TV*

* Nota bene:  Rhodes-Scholars.TV is an informal communication network of Rhodes Scholars interested in sharing stories, studies, news and comments about the transition to a just and sustainable future in a climate-changed world.  However, Rhodes-Scholars.TV is not a part or affiliate of the Rhodes Trust or the Rhodes Scholarship Programme, and any information, material or views published by or available via Rhodes-Scholars.TV do not represent the views or values of the Rhodes Trust, the Rhodes Scholarship Programme or the Rhodes Scholar community as a whole.

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For the most recent and official platform sponsored by The Rhodes Trust  for connecting among Rhodes Scholars see the following message from The Warden of Rhodes House, Dr.  Elizabeth Kiss.

• Welcome to Rhodes Connect for Alumni June 15, 2021

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For some past contributions from Rhodes Scholars see:

• Kumi Naidoo at COP26: Will Rich Countries Deliver Pledged Billions for South Africa to Get Off Coal? (South Africa-at-Large & Magdalen 1987)
• Gus Speth & George Woodwell on Carbon Use and the Human Prospect – Thames TV 1981 (South Carolina & Balliol 1964)
• They Knew: The US Federal Governments Fifty-Year Role in Causing the Climate Crisis (South Carolina & Balliol 1964)
• The “Overview Effect” & Transition Studies: Working for Sustainable Human Survival in a Finite Ecosystem – T. C. Weiskel (New Hampshire and Balliol, ’69)
• New Reporting Shows White House Role In Directing Trump Mob To Capitol – Rachel Maddow (California and Lincoln ’95)
• CORY BOOKER: Amazing Conspiracy of Love | English Speech | English Speech with Subtitles Cory Booker (New Jersey and Queen’s ’92)
• The Sedition That Nobody’s Talking About | Robert Reich  (New Hampshire & University 1968)
• Drip, Drip, Drip…. An Outline Chronology of Events, Reports and News Releases T. C. Weiskel (New Hampshire & Balliol, 1969)
• A “Letter from America…” T. C. Weiskel (New Hampshire & Balliol, 1969)
• Remembering Why Black Lives Matter T. C. Weiskel (New Hampshire & Balliol, 1969)
• There Must Be #NoHoneymoon for Joe Biden Robert Reich (New Hampshire & University 1968)
• Kumi Naidoo (South Africa-at-Large & Magdalen 1987)
• Kumi Naidoo | What Could Possibly Go Right?  (South Africa-at-Large & Magdalen 1987)
• “Frightening Moment”: On Earth Day, Kumi Naidoo on Africa’s Twin Pandemics of Coronavirus & Hunger  (South Africa-at-Large & Magdalen 1987)
• A Chapter in an Ongoing Crisis | Tim Weiskel (New Hampshire & Balliol, 1969)
• The Sad and Sobering Reality: There Will Be No Post-Coronavirus Moment Ahead  (New Hampshire & Balliol, 1969)
• The Social Impact of COVID-19 (New Hampshire & Balliol, 1969)
• What must we learn to survive as a species? (The Case of Agriculture and Oxford’s PPE Degree)  T. C. Weiskel (New Hampshire & Balliol, 1969)
• Rachel Maddow On Corruption In the Oil And Gas Industry | All In | MSNBC
• Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth: Rachel Maddow
• Amnesty Head: Kumi Naidoo -Climate Crisis Is a “Death Penalty” for Humanity. Leaders Need Politic al Will to Act
• Climate Activist Greta Thunberg Receives Amnesty International Award from Kumi Naidoo
• Kumi Naidoo (South Africa-at-Large & Magdalen 1987)
• Living For A Cause #1 – Kumi Naidoo
• “Only Our Youth Can Save the Planet” – Kumi Naidoo | Inter Press Service
• Kumi Naidoo: United Nations Shouldn’t “Pander to Madness That Comes Out of the T rump Administration”
• “Climate Apartheid”: South African Climate Activist Kumi Naidoo Slams Inequality at U.N. Summit
• Spy Cables: Greenpeace’s Kumi Naidoo Targeted by Intelligence Agencies as “Security” Threat
• Kumi Naidoo: As Africa Burns, Why Is U.S. Refusing to Help Stop Catastrophic Climate Change?
• Global Divestment Mobilisation live broadcast with Bill McKibben, Kumi Naidoo & other Guests
• Before All the World the Youth Challenge the Fatal Myopia, Greed & Childishness of the Trump Generation  T. C. Weiskel (New Hampshire & Balliol, 1969)
• Rhodes House Warden on Livestream
• Boston Climate & Sea-Level Update
• Climate Boston – a YouTube Channel – & related course on “Climate Vulnerability,” T. C. Weiskel (New Hampshire & Balliol, 1969)
• When You Give Tax Breaks To Rich Folks Because ‘They Will Make Jobs!’ What Really Happens  Robert Reich (New Hampshire & University 1968)
• “THIS IS A GIGANTIC HOAX!!!” Robert Reich DESTROYS Trump Lackey Stephen Moore on Trump’s Tax Bill Robert Reich (New Hampshire & University 1968)
• Saving Capitalism with Robert Reich Robert Reich (New Hampshire & University 1968)
• Saving Capitalism and Democracy with Robert Reich — In the Living Room with Henry E. Brady Robert Reich (New Hampshire & University 1968)
• The Big Picture: How We Got Into This Mess, And How Get Out of It I Robert Reich Robert Reich (New Hampshire & University 1968)
• “Only Our Youth Can Save the Planet” – Kumi Naidoo | Inter Press Service (South Africa-at-Large & Magdalen 1987) 
• China and Humanity’s “Transition:” Will China Succeed Where The West Has Failed?  T. C. Weiskel (New Hampshire & Balliol, 1969)
• Climate and Inequality  Robert Reich (New Hampshire & University 1968). And associated YouTube Channel: Inequality Media – Robert Reich
• Reflections on the Present and the Future – South African Artist: Tanisha Bhana, Charalee Graydon (Prairies & Wadham 1982)
• VOX – Voices from Oxford – Tim Weiskel (New Hampshire & Balliol, 1969)
• Can Humanity Survive the Anthropocene? T. C. Weiskel (New Hampshire & Balliol, 1969)
• Advice to Young People: Environmental Sustainability T. C. Weiskel (New Hampshire & Balliol, 1969)
• 3 October 2017 – The Warden of Rhodes House, Charles Conn, has announced he will step down
• Contemporary Art “Our Changing World” – the work of Tanisha Bhana, Charalee Graydon (Prairies & Wadham 1982)
• The Tragedy is that “We treat soil like dirt” — Topsoil, Climate Change and the Collapse of Civilizations | EV & N – 255 | CCTV, T. C. Weiskel (New Hampshire & Balliol, 1969)
• Standing up for the World: Sustainability and Climate Change Panel  – One panel discussion as part of the  40th Rhodes Women Anniversary September 20, 2017
• Inequality Media Civic Action, Videoblog, Robert Reich (New Hampshire & University 1968)
  see also
• Robert Reich: The Resistance Report, Robert Reich (New Hampshire & University 1968)
• Climate and Inequality, Robert Reich (New Hampshire & University 1968)
• Climate Change Workshop: Welcome and Talk The Challenges of Generation 1 5C 
• Truth as a Common Good with Robert Reich,  Robert Reich (New Hampshire & University 1968)
• Climate Damage Assessment: Assessing the Full Cost of 40 Years of Profits, Lies, and Deception from the Fossil-Fuel Industries | EV & N – 254 – CCTV, T.C. Weiskel (New Hampshire & Balliol, 1969)
• The United States Decides to Leave the Paris Agreement — Crisis or Opportunity?,  Charalee Graydon (Prairies & Wadham 1982)
• Transition-Studies.TV, Videoblog, T.C. Weiskel (New Hampshire & Balliol, 1969)
• Climate Change – Our Threatened World Charalee Graydon (Prairies & Wadham 1982)
• Climate Change, Soils and Humans as a Keystone Species in the Global Ecosystem, May 14, 2017,  T.C. Weiskel (New Hampshire & Balliol, 1969)
• The Rise and Coming Demise of “Free-Market” Fundamentalism – Viewpoints from Balliol College Over Time, May 8, 2017,  T.C. Weiskel (New Hampshire & Balliol, 1969)
• Art and Activism – A Warrior with Care and Compassion | Rhodes Scholar Climate Workshop Charalee Graydon (Prairies & Wadham 1982)
• Generation 1.5°C : A unique intergenerational climate workshop – Rhodes House, Oxford
• Impeachment April 5, 2017 Robert Reich (New Hampshire & University 1968)
• Inequality Media Robert Reich (New Hampshire & University 1968) + Facebook Page
• None of Trump’s Supreme Court Picks Should be Confirmed Until Trump Comes Clean (Robert Reich (New Hampshire & University 1968)
• Taking Stock of What’s at Stake: Petro-Militarism and the Hijacking of the American State T.C. Weiskel (New Hampshire & Balliol, 1969)
• Envisioning a Sustainable Future: Managing and Protecting the Environment | Harvard Extension School – T.C. Weiskel (New Hampshire & Balliol, 1969)
• Democrats Must Fight Robert Reich (New Hampshire & University 1968)
• The Clash of Civilizations? or The Crash of Civilization? What happens when the rule-breakers become the rule-makers?  T.C. Weiskel (New Hampshire & Balliol, 1969)
• Ignorance + Arrogance = Overshoot ==> Collapse: The Accelerated Collapse of a Non-Renewable Civilization  T.C. Weiskel (New Hampshire & Balliol, 1969)
• Winning Battles and Losing the War: Populist Politics and The War on Science  T.C. Weiskel (New Hampshire & Balliol, 1969)
• From “Alternative Facts” to Alternative Reality: Have Our Leaders (and the “Media” following them) Lost Their Grip on Reality? T.C. Weiskel (New Hampshire & Balliol, 1969)
• Are You “Climate Ready” Boston? (& New York? Philadelphia? Baltimore? Washington?…+ London? Hong Kong? Lagos? Cairo?, …etc?)  T.C. Weiskel (New Hampshire & Balliol, 1969)
• Robert Reich: Like a Tyrant, Trump Is Deploying Seven Techniques to Control the Media (New Hampshire & University 1968)
• Trumps SOS Pick Rex Tillerson MOCKS U.S. Government at Russian Oil Expo – SHAMEFUL   (California and Lincoln 1995)
• Robert Reich on the First 100 Day Resistance Agenda Against Trump: Protest & “Boycott Everything”  (New Hampshire & University 1968)
• Finally, The REAL REASON Why Trump Picked Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson AND Why He’s Taking a 99% PAY CUT  (California and Lincoln 1995)
• Patrice Dechavanne, French Surrealist Artist, and Our Changing Planet – [Forwarded by: Charalee Graydon (Prairies & Wadham 1982)]
• New Poll uncovers Trump Supporters Alternate Reality – “They LITERALLY Think UP IS DOWN” Rachel Maddow (California and Lincoln 1995) from Social View
• Inequality Media Videos with Robert Reich (New Hampshire & University 1968)
• Recent Videoblog Posts from the Cambridge Climate Research Associates (CCRA) – [forwarded by T.C. Weiskel (New Hampshire & Balliol, 1969)]
• African Oil – From the Artistic works of Barthélémy Toguo [Forwarded by: Charalee Graydon (Prairies & Wadham 1982)]
  
• The Prarie Climate Atlas [Forwarded by: Alana Lajoie-O’Malley (Praries & Linacre 2007)]
• Launching The New Enlightenment: The Reaffirmation of the Social Contract: Michael Jaffey [Forwarded by: Michael Jaffey (Rhodesia & St Edmund Hall 1949)]
• Charalee Graydon (Prairies & Wadham 1982) on the Arts, Climate and Environmental Justice
• The Creative Arts and Climate Change: International Indigenous Art and Culture

For related events in Oxford see:

• Oxford Climate Society Facebook Page
• Oxford Climate Policy – OCP 
  and
• OCS Week 1 events  …. plus further weekly listings from Michaelmas 2016 onward.
  

Keep in touch and join in:

Important recent scientific studies include:

Tamma Carleton (Oregon & Magdalen 2011)

Other material from Senior Rhodes Scholars includes:

• “Temperatures Rise, and We’re Cooked” – Nicholas Kristof (Oregon & Magdalen 1981) + videoblogs.
• Rhodes Alumni on the experience of the Scholarships
• Ngaire Woods (New Zealand & Balliol 1987) on the legacy of Cecil Rhodes (+ background sources)
• Daniel Esty (Massachusetts & Balliol 1981) (+ new Sustainability Leadership Program)
• Nicholas Kristof (Oregon & Magdalen 1981) (background sources)
• Kumi Naidoo (South Africa-at-Large & Magdalen 1987) (+ background sources)
• David Quammen (Ohio & Merton 1970) (+ background sources)
• Robert Reich (New Hampshire & University 1968)
  Including:
  • Robert Reich’s First 100 Days Resistance Agenda | Alternet
  • The Baby Boomer Bomb
  • Robert B. Reich »WHY WORRY ABOUT INEQUALITY« | Public Lecture 2014-4-30
  • Robert Reich, Globaloney: The Dangerous Myths of Globalization
  • Robert Reich – Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few
  • The Investments of the 158
  • Why is a Wall Street Sales Tax a Good Idea?
  • The Realities of Free Trade Deals – TPP
  • The Student Debt Crisis
  • The True Cost Of College
  • Corporate Tax Desertion
  • Universal Basic Income
  • Robert Reich: The Oddest Presidential Election in Living Memory
• Gus Speth (South Carolina & Balliol 1964)

…. etc., etc.

Related:

• Fighting the World’s Fight: Against Poverty
• There is no “Planet B”….
• Rhodes Scholars Warn of Dramatic Transformations Required by Global Climate Crisis
• “Fighting the World’s Fight” – Rhodes Scholars in Oxford and Beyond
• The Man With A Plan… (…and his enduring challenge to Rhodes Scholars and world leaders today)
• “Sustainability and Religion: New Directions in Research and Practice” – T.C. Weiskel (New Hampshire & Balliol 1969)
• Some Recent Videoblog Posts – CCRA – T.C. Weiskel (New Hampshire & Balliol 1969)

and:

as well as the Rhodes Trust YouTube Channel – Rhodes Alumni Interviews:

and:

as well as the ongoing Rhodes Scholar Blog

& other visionary voices on the transitions necessary in a climate changed world ….