Our financial system, our food, our climate. The very essence of life and society, each of them suffering perhaps irremediable stress. Bill McKibben (‘Eaarth’), Raj Patel (‘The Value of Nothing’), and Rick Smith and Bruce Lourie (‘Slow Death by Rubber Duck’) talk to Michael Sexton about the most critical question of our time.
Raj Patel (International) Raj Patel is an award-winning writer, activist and academic. He has worked for the World Bank, interned at the WTO, consulted for the UN and been involved in international campaigns against his former employers. Currently a researcher at the University of Kwa-Zulu-Natal in South Africa and a visiting scholar at the Center for African Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, his education includes degrees from Oxford, the London School of Economics and Cornell University. His most recent books are ‘The Value of Nothing’ and ‘Stuffed and Starved: Markets, Power and the Hidden Battle for the World Food System’. rajpatel.org
Bill McKibben (International) Bill McKibben’s books include ‘The End of Nature’ and ‘Deep Economy’. He is the founder of the environmental organisations Step It Up and 350.org, and was among the first to warn of the dangers of global warming. He is a scholar in residence at Middlebury College and lives in Vermont with his wife and daughter. His most recent book is ‘Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet’. billmckibben.com
Rick Smith (International) Rick Smith is a prominent Canadian author and environmentalist. As executive director of Environmental Defence Canada he has established a reputation as one of the country's leading environmental campaigners. Recently Rick teamed up with Bruce Lourie, an environmental professional, to tell the story of pollution in our modern world using their own bodies as laboratories. Their results were published in ‘Slow Death by Rubber Duck’, which exposes the extent to which we are being poisoned every day of our lives, both in our homes and our workplaces.
Bruce Lourie (International) Bruce Lourie is one of Canada’s leading environmental thinkers and co-author of the best-selling book ‘Slow Death by Rubber Duck: how the toxic chemistry of everyday life affects our health’. He is president of Ivey Foundation, a private charitable foundation in Canada, a director of the Ontario Power Authority and a director of the Consultative Group on Biological Diversity. Bruce is a founder of a number of for profit and non-profit organisations. He has advised numerous federal, provincial and municipal bodies in Canada on energy policy and climate issues.
Michael Sexton SC (Australian) Michael Sexton SC is Solicitor General for New South Wales. He is the co-author of the Australian text on defamation law as well as the author of several books on Australian history and politics and a novel. He has reviewed books for various journals, most particularly ‘The Sydney Morning Herald’ for 30 years. He is a director of the board of Sydney Writers’ Festival.
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