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Given the meeting's theme "Think Local, Act Global: Best Practices Around the World," and the Spirit of 1848’s choice to focus on the connection between global and local in relation to: “The Politics of Global Climate Change: Social Justice, Sustainable Economies & Ecologies, and Health Equity,” The Spirit of 1848 History Sub-Committee seeks papers that will address the local and the global in the context of energy and natural resource inequality and public health challenges from a historical perspective. Topics might include: • Redistributive energy and social welfare policy in historical context • Politics of measuring environmental and resource inequalities in local, national, and international/transnational contexts. • “Scarcity” and “abundance” and the fictions of "beyond oil" and supply-side solutions. • Resource use: how societies across the world have dealt equitably and sustainably with natural resource vicissitudes (oil, land, forests, etc.) through social/indigenous/civil society movements (e.g. movements such as Buen Vivir, etc.) • Resource inequality and precarity: Water and water politics across the generations

Session Objectives: Describe the local and the global in the context of energy and natural resource inequality and public health challenges from a historical perspective.