Najam Speaks at Quaid-i-Azam University on Age of Adaptation
On November 10, 2022, Adil Najam, Dean Emeritus and Professor of International Relations and Earth and Environment at Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, spoke to students and faculty of the Quaid-i-Azam University in Islamabad, Pakistan, on the changing face of global climate politics.
In his remarks, Najam argued that because of our collective inaction on climate change, the world is in for much more turbulence in the global climate and also in global climate politics. This, he said, is one more manifestation of the new global tensions that living in the “Age of Adaptation” is unraveling. Presenting some of the latest data on climatic shifts and the now apparent impacts of these shifts, Najam pointed towards the dichotomy of highly increased public interest in climate change around the world, especially amongst the young, but also the fact that this has not led to real changes in lifestyle. “We are fooling ourselves by believing that raising slogans, writing tweets, or walking in protests is actually going to make a difference when the only thing that can make a difference is real and tangible changes in our own lifestyles and in the politics we support,” Najam stated.
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Adil Najam is a global public policy expert who served as the Inaugural Dean of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University and was the former Vice-Chancellor of the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). His research focuses on issues of global public policy, especially those related to global climate change, South Asia, Muslim countries, environment and development, and human development. Read more about Professor Najam on his faculty profile.