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Stories from the Climate Change Front: A Forum and Launch of Overland 195
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David Spratt, co-author of Climate Code Red, Dr Sharon Beder, author of Global Spin: The Corporate Assault on Environmentalism, and Deltoid science blogger Tim Lambert discuss the state of the climate change debate today with Overland editor Jeff Sparrow.

Are the big polluters changing their ways or simply greening their public image? Who are the main climate denialists? What kind of action do we need, and how close are we to achieving it?

Presented by Overland.

Launch  |  Current Affairs, Nonfiction
Participants
Sharon Beder, Tim Lambert, David Spratt, Jeff Sparrow (facilitator)

When
Saturday, May 23 2009
15:00 - 16:00

Where
Sydney Dance Company, Studio 1
Pier 4/5, Hickson Road
Walsh Bay
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Cost
Free

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SHARON BEDER (INTERSTATE)Beder, Sharon
SHARON BEDER is the author of several books, including Global Spin, Suiting Themselves, Free Market Missionaries, Power Play, Selling the Work Ethic and Environmental Principles and Policies.


TIM LAMBERT (INTERSTATE)Lambert, Tim
TIM LAMBERT writes about science on Deltoid, part of Seed's scienceblogs.com. He is a lecturer in the School of Computer Science and Engineering, UNSW.


DAVID SPRATT (INTERSTATE)Spratt, David
DAVID SPRATT is a founder of CarbonEquity and co-author of Climate Code Red: The Case for Emergency Action. His work has appeared recently in The Age, Dissent, Chain Reaction, Crikey, Rolling Stone, The Adelaide Advertiser and newmatilda.com. He has extensive advocacy experience in the peace movement, and in developing community campaign communication and marketing strategies.
 climatecodered.net


JEFF SPARROW (INTERSTATE)Sparrow, Jeff
JEFF SPARROW is the editor of Overland, the co-author of Radical Melbourne: A Secret History and Radical Melbourne 2: The Enemy Within, and the author of Communism: A Love Story and the forthcoming Killing.

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