World at a Crossroads:
Climate Change - Social Change Conference II
Date: Friday, September 30 – Monday, October 3, 2011
Place: Sidney Myer Asia Centre, Melbourne University
The second Climate Change-Social Change conference aims to contribute towards understanding and collective action, in Australia and internationally, to urgently address the climate and social emergencies that we must overcome if humanity and the planet are to not only survive, but thrive.
'A global ecological revolution can only occur as part of a larger social revolution' – John Bellamy Foster
Featuring:
JOHN BELLAMY FOSTER, renowned US economist and ecologist, Monthly Review editor and author of The Ecological Rift, The Ecological Revolution, The Great Financial Crisis (with Fred Magdoff); Marx’s Ecology; Ecology Against Capitalism; and The Vulnerable Planet.
IAN ANGUS, a founder of the Ecosocialist International Network and editor of climateandcapitalism.com. Author of Confronting the Climate Change Crisis: An Eco-socialist Perspective; Food Crisis: World Hunger, Agribusiness and the Food Sovereignty Alternative; and The Global Fight for Climate Justice.
Three days of feature talks, panel discussions and more than 20 workshops to discuss solutions for a world in crisis
Including:
Capitalism, socialism and ecology ● People’s power and democracy ● The climate debt and the Global South ● Refugees, racism and internationalism ● Food security and survival ● Building movements that can stop climate change ● The global nuclear threat ● Indigenous resistance, land and sovereignty ● Feminism and climate change ● Imperialism, war and oil ● The market Vs social ownership ● The dirty record of carbon trading ● Population and the planet ● Agro-business and sustainable alternatives
…and much more
Sponsored by the Office of Environmental Programs, Melbourne University
Organised by Green Left Weekly and the Socialist Alliance
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