Conference: Climate change, social change

April 11-13, 2008 — Sydney

The world is teetering on the brink of unstoppable climate change. Many now recognise the need for serious change in the way we produce and use energy, our transport systems, food production, urban design and forestry practices. Yet politicians are still mouthing platitudes while allowing corporations to continue to profit from polluting our atmosphere and destroying our ecosystem. The need for social change has become an urgent part of preventing catastrophic climate change. Can the market fix the problem? What is the real record of carbon trading? How can we build a social movement capable of averting this disaster? What models and experiences can offer real solutions?

To strengthen the exchange of ideas and contribute towards that urgent action Green Left Weekly is organising this conference.

International speakers: John Bellamy Foster, author of Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature & editor of Monthly Review; Patrick Bond, director of the Centre for Civil Society, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa & editor of Climate Change, Carbon Trading and Civil Society; Roberto Perez, Cuban permaculturalist (featured in the film The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil).

 Full list of speakers.

If you would like to present a workshop, exhibit your artwork or register interest in the conference email climateconf@greenleft.org.au.

Workshop submissions close on March 16, 2008.

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