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You’ve Been Warned

Code: 138 | Type: Panel | Genres: Nonfiction, Science & Environment, Business & Economy, Politics, Current Affairs, History

Friday, May 20

8:00 PM - 9:30 PM

Ticketed: $20/$15

Sydney Town Hall, 483 George Street, Sydney

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Paul Gilding, Naomi Oreskes, Curt Stager, Sam Mostyn (facilitator)

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Is climate change off the political agenda? President Obama didn’t even mention it in his State of the Union Address earlier this year. How do we get the action most of us know we need? Naomi Oreskes outlines the dark political forces preventing action. Paleoclimatologist Curt Stager shows the hard choices we have to make now to preserve anything like the planet we know and love. And former director of Greenpeace International and environmental business strategist Paul Gilding argues our economy is on a collision course with nature. Chair: Sam Mostyn.

	Paul Gilding (Australian) Paul Gilding is an independent writer, advisor and advocate for action on climate change and sustainability. He has served as CEO of a range of innovative NGOs and companies including Greenpeace International, Ecos Corporation and Easy Being Green. He has also helped to establish and has served on the board of a number of new NGOs including Inspire Foundation, the Australian Business Community Network and Climate Coolers. ‘The Great Disruption’ is his first book. paulgilding.com Also appearing at... You Save the Planet Growing Pains The Great Disruption

	Naomi Oreskes (International) Naomi Oreskes is professor of history and science studies at the University of California, San Diego. She has won numerous prizes for her work and has lectured widely in diverse venues. Her 2004 essay “The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change”, cited by Al Gore in ‘An Inconvenient Truth’, led to op-ed pieces in various American newspapers and to Congressional testimony in the US Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. ‘Merchants of Doubt’ is her first book. Also appearing at... Women Warriors for the Environment The Merchants of Doubt

	Curt Stager (International) Curt Stager is an ecologist, paleoclimatologist and science writer. He has published over three dozen climate and ecology related articles in major journals and has written for popular audiences in periodicals such as ‘National Geographic’ and ‘Adirondack Life’. He teaches at Paul Smith's College in upstate New York and holds a research associate post at the University of Maine's Climate Change Institute. His latest book is ‘Deep Future: The Next 100,000 Years of Life on Earth’. curtstager.com Also appearing at... Climate Whiplash Conversations with Richard Fidler: Curt Stager’s Deep Future Last One Out, Turn Off the Lights

	Sam Mostyn (Australian) Sam Mostyn has enjoyed a diverse career. She was a senior executive at Optus Communications and Insurance Australia Group, and now serves as a non-executive director on the boards of Virgin Blue and Transurban. In 2005 Sam was appointed to the AFL Commission, the first woman to be appointed to that role. In her time at IAG, Sam oversaw the company's participation in the Australian Business in the Community Network, the launch of the Australian Business Roundtable on Climate Change, and the creation of Business for Millennium Development.

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