The final report of the American Anthropological Association’s Global Climate Change Task Force concluded that human decisions, actions, and cultural behaviors are now the most important causes of the rapidly changing climate. “We’re not going to solve our environmental problems until we incorporate the social sciences, because it starts with people,” said Dr. Kathleen Galvin, professor in the Department of Anthropology and one of the small number of researchers selected as a task force member.

Kathleen Galvin, Professor of Anthropology and Senior Research Scientist with the Natural Resource Ecology Lab, SAES/Africa Center, School of Gobal Environmental Sustainability, Colorado State University November 6, 2014
Kathleen Galvin, Professor of Anthropology and Senior Research Scientist with the Natural Resource Ecology Lab, SAES/Africa Center, School of Gobal Environmental Sustainability, Colorado State University November 6, 2014

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