November 28 2007

Death from smoking. CFCs and the ozone layer. Whale hunting. Rainforest destruction. Lead in petrol. The list goes on. All were debated ad infinitum, sometimes for decades, before governments took drastic action to preserve lives and the environment. By all accounts global warming is today the greatest threat facing our planet. Can we idly permit politicians to delay taking effective action to safeguard future generations?

This public lecture details the politics being waged around global warming, the vested interests shaping debate and suggests what must now happen societally and politically to cool the planet.

Introduced by Cate Faehrmann
Executive Director of the Nature Conservation Council of NSW

Ian McGregor
Ian McGregor is conducting PhD research at UTS on ecologically sustainable development in Australia and is also a Lecturer in the UTS Business Faculty School of Management. Recently he convened a research panel on civil society and climate change for an inaugural conference held at UTS by the new Centre for Cosmopolitan Civil Societies. His research seeks to identify the societal barriers to Ecologically Sustainable Development, with a particular focus on the role of civil society on national and international climate change policy.

Resources

• flyer (PDF 52k)
• presentation slides (PDF 1.8 MB)
• audio recording (MP3 24.4 MB)

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