Kevin McKinney, a native of Sault Ste. Marie, Canada, is a musician, educator, writer and technician, holding a doctorate in musical composition from the University of Georgia. He and Connie Quirk came to UUCC from Gwinnett County in the Atlanta suburbs, where they had lived since 1994. During the Georgia years, Kevin taught music at Georgia State University and as a studio teacher of brass instruments, piano and guitar, as well as working as a theatrical technician. He has composed numerous works for chorus and chamber ensembles, is an active song-writer and arranger, and under the nom de plume “Doc Snow” has two self-released albums, Carolina Maze (2020) and Damage (2022), now available on all streaming platforms, with a third now in production. Kevin is also the author of more than 100 online articles, including many on climate science history. He currently teaches at the Kershaw Fine Arts Center in Camden.
Overshooting and Drawing Down” looks at the present, past and future of society and climate change, finding us situated in a moment of moral and practical choice. We are poised between opposing exponential trends: the “overshoot” of environmental pollution and degradation, and the “draw down” of carbon emissions with the ongoing revolutionary transformation of our … Continue reading Overshooting and Drawing Down
Climate change, and more generally environmental sustainability, is the most important challenge of our time. We look at what we know, how we know it, and the challenge of imagination.
