Climate Change: 'Just too hard' - Clive Hamilton

Provocative author Clive Hamilton will discuss his new book “Requiem for a Species” in a public lecture this month hosted by the newly established Global Change Institute at The University of Queensland.

In the inaugural seminar of the Global Change Institute “Insights Seminar Series”, Clive Hamilton examines why the human species finds facing up to climate change “just too hard”.

In the preface to Requiem for a Species Clive Hamilton describes the book as follows:

“It is a book about the frailties of the human species: our strange obsessions, our hubris, and our penchant for avoiding the facts. A story of a battle within us, between the forces that should have caused us to protect the earth, like our capacity to reason and our connection to nature, and our greed, materialism and alienation from nature, which, in the end, have won out.”

This is a free event, open to the public.
Book sales, signing and light refreshments will follow the lecture.

24th March 2010
5.30pm
Abel Smith Lecture Theatre (Building 23)
St Lucia Campus
(Located at the top of Campbell Rd.)

RSVP essential - www.gci.uq.edu.au/lecture

About Clive Hamilton
Clive Hamilton AM is author and co-author of the bestselling Affluenza, Growth Fetish, Scorcher, Silencing Dissent and Freedom Paradox.

One of Australia’s leading thinkers, he is Charles Sturt Professor of Public Ethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, based at the Australian National University.

Clive has held visiting academic positions at Yale University, the University of Sydney, and the University of Cambridge.

In June 2009 he was made a Member of the Order of Australia for his service to public debate and policy development, and in December 2009 he was the Greens candidate in the by-election for the federal seat of Higgins.

Requiem for a Species
Allen & Unwin, 1 March 2010 – Australia
RRP: $24.99

About the Global Change Institute
The University of Queensland is a research leader in many areas associated with global change. The University established the Global Change Institute (GCI), led by world-renowned research Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, to provide a vehicle for collaborative research, learning, engagement and advocacy in major global change issues.

The GCI will contribute to evidence-based, progressive solutions to the problems of a rapidly changing world within the existing and projected frameworks of those problems: political, environmental, social, economic, technical. It will investigate complex, interconnected issues in innovative ways to achieve multi-disciplinary, integrated solutions.

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