*Please forward this invitation to your friends, colleagues and networks – we’d love to see you there!*
It is time to wake up to the truth about climate change. . .
Perhaps you think renewable energy or climate engineering will save us…or maybe the timescale for action is not as narrow as the scientists keep telling us… Perhaps you’re holding out hope that politicians will coordinate a global solution, despite the short-term bent of our institutions and psychological dispositions. Whatever your current thinking, is it based on the evidence?
In Requiem for a Species Clive Hamilton explores the reasons for our hubris, our innate optimism, and our penchant for avoiding the facts. He concludes that it is time to face up to our obligations to our fellow humans, and the wider natural world – to no longer protect those who continue to pollute the atmosphere in a way that threatens our survival.
Join us for one or all of these events to discuss Clive Hamilton’s new book:
Requiem for a Species: Why We Resist the Truth About Climate Change
Blackwell’s Oxford
Date: Monday 10th May 2010
Location: Blackwell’s Bookshop Oxford, 48-51 Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BQ (map)
Time: 6:45…for a 7pm start
Speakers: Clive Hamilton and Chris Goodall
RSVP: This event is with tickets only. Please quote ‘Requiem event’. Tickets cost £2 and can be obtained by visiting the Customer Service Department on the Second Floor of Blackwell Bookshop, by phoning 01865 333623, or e-mailing oxford@blackwell.co.uk.
The discussion. . . A talk by CLIVE HAMILTON will be followed by a live interview of Clive by CHRIS GOODALL (author of How to Live a Low-carbon Life – now in its second edition), and then Chris will chair a Q & A with the audience. ** Read more about the event here>>
The Quaker Bookshop London
Date: Tuesday 11th May 2010
Location: Quaker Centre, Friends House, 173 Euston Rd, London NW1 2BJ
Time: 6:00 – 8:00pm
Speakers: Clive Hamilton
RSVP: Registration is free but essential at www.quaker.org.uk/requiem
The discussion...CLIVE HAMILTON will present the main themes of his new book Requiem for a Species: Why We Resist the Truth About Climate Change, followed by a Q&A with the audience. ** Read more about the event here>>
RSA London
Date: Wednesday 12th May 2010
Location: RSA 8 John Adam Street, London WC2N 6EZ (Map)
Time: 6:00 – 7:30pm
Speaker: Clive Hamilton
RSVP: Click here to register online>>
The discussion...CLIVE HAMILTON Professor of Public Ethics at the Australian National University, visits the RSA to discuss his new book Requiem for a Species - a book which asks why we have ignored the warnings, so that now it is too late? * * Read more about this event here>>
Heffers Cambridge
Date: Thursday 13th May 2010
Location: Heffers Bookshop Cambridge, 20 Trinity Street, Cambridge, CB2 1TY (map)
Time: 6:30 – 8:30pm
Speakers: Clive Hamilton and Tim Jackson
RSVP: gudrun.freese@earthscan.co.uk (please quote ‘Heffers event’)
The disussion. . . CLIVE HAMILTON and TIM JACKSON (author of Prosperity Without Growth) unravel the forces that have prevented us from acting against climate change, and address the urgent task of overhauling democracy in pursuit of survival. * *Read more about the event here>>
Gudrun Freese
Earthscan
Tel: +44 (0)20 7841 1930
gudrun.freese@earthscan.co.uk
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