Join the MIT Free Speech Alliance for the fourth debate in their Great Debate Series on campus, in partnership with the MIT Open Discourse Society and sponsored by Heterodox Academy. The following resolution is on the table for debate:

Resolved, The total cost of global net-zero decarbonization by the latter half of this century is well worth the projected global benefits.

The Affirmative Team will be Kerry Emanuel, MIT Professor Emeritus of Atmospheric Science and co-founder of MIT’s Lorenz Center, and Robert Pindyck, MIT Sloan School Professor of Economics and Finance and past President of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. The Negative Team will be Steven Koonin, Sr. Fellow at the Hoover Institution and former Under Secretary for Science, and Mark Mills, Executive Director of the National Center for Energy Analytics and faculty fellow at Northwestern University’s school of engineering. Heterodox Academy's president, John Tomasi , will moderate the debate.

Please register if you plan to attend this event in person. The debate will also be recorded and livestreamed.

When: Thursday, November 14, 2024 at 7:00-8:30 PM ET

Where: Wong Auditorium (Tang Center, Building E51), MIT campus