An ABC radio debate on Global Warming.
i missed alot of it but it what I heard was interesting
Climate alert: top priority or obscurantist twaddle? - The National Interest - 2 January 2009
i will listen to it again later
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Climate alert: top priority or obscurantist twaddle?
Rising waters, permanent drought, melting ice-caps: are these phenomena fixable, irreversible or merely non-issues? Climate sceptics say they are the victims of persecution by the grand inquisitors of eco-doom, while climate campaigners argue global warming is here now and the time for faffing around is over. That's the premise of this Deakin lecture, recorded at Melbourne's Fed Square earlier this year: that climate change is the only issue, the only framework, the one metanarrative that counts. Or should reducing poverty and improving living conditions remain the world's top priority? This discussion first went to air in June, 2008.
Guests
Chris Turner
Author of 'The Geography of Hope: A tour of the World We Need'
Don Henry
Executive Director Australian Conservation Foundation
Larissa Brown
Founder and Executive Director Centre for Sustainability Leadership
Dr Norman Lewis
Chief Strategy Officer Wireless Grids Corporation (USA)
Austin Williams
Architect, writer and critic Founder of ManTowNHuman
Dr Leela Gandhi
Professor of English University of Chicago
Further Information
ManTowNHuman: Manifesto: Towards a New Humanism in Architecture
Australian Conservation Foundation
Centre for Sustainability Leadership
Presenter
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Climate alert: top priority or obscurantist twaddle? - The National Interest - 2 January 2009
