Robert M. Christie

Dr. Christie is Emeritus Professor of Sociology, and Founding Director of the Urban Community Research Center, California State University, Dominguez Hills. He taught quantitative and qualitative research methods, social psychology of organizations, and conducted community research for 35 years. He consults with non-profit community groups on matters sociological.

Dr. Christie is an instrument rated pilot, a wood worker, and a freelance writer. He blogs at www.TheHopefulRealist.com on topics related to critical contemporary issues. His passions include social change and the transformation to an ecological economy.

Society

Creating Local Community Resilience to Avoid Climate Catastrophe

The accelerating climate crisis requires massive mobilization of populations to take back control of our lives through resistance, replacement, and resilience.

January 25, 2016

COP21, Bill Gates, and Climate Catastrophe

COP21, like the United Nations climate conferences before it, appears to be floundering over international non-binding showcase “commitments” to reduce carbon emissions — and is emitting effusive illusions of progress.

December 8, 2015

Society

The Essentials of Resilience in a World of Growing Chaos

The most urgent question today is what must be done now and in the near future to achieve major mitigation of carbon emissions.

April 14, 2015

Becoming Indigenous: Settling a Population Adrift in an Unstable World

Who now lives fully integrated with a clan, tribe, or other group ‘emplaced’ for many generations in a particular location and fully integrated into the ecology of that place?

December 24, 2014

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