Meet Clive Hamilton - Brisbane Square Library

Meet Clive Hamilton - Brisbane Square Library

Australian author and academic Clive Hamilton shares his new book on climate change, Living Hot.

By Brisbane City Council

Date and time

Wed, 12 Jun 2024 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM AEST

Location

Brisbane Square Library

266 George Street Brisbane City, QLD 4000 Australia

About this event

  • 1 hour

Living Hot tells the blunt truth about our current climate change predicament: it’s time to get cracking on making Australia resilient to intensifying climate extremes. If we prepare well, we can give ourselves a fighting chance to preserve some of the best of what we have, build stronger and fairer communities, find a path through the escalating pressures of a warming world – and event find new ways to flourish.

To get there, we must leave behind both the doomism and the wishful thinking currently holding us back. In Living Hot, highly respected academic Clive Hamilton and policy consultant George Wilkenfeld shift the emphasis away from reducing carbon emissions and on to making Australia resilient, outlining a vision for an all-embracing and on-going program of investment and social change to protect ourselves from the ravages of a changing climate.

Join author and academic Clive Hamilton as he shares his book Living Hot, a sober assessment of the challenges we face, and a farsighted road map for what we must do next if we want to survive and even thrive on our healing planet.

Books will be available for purchase on the day from Dymocks Brisbane, or bring a copy from home to be signed.

Presented as part of the Lord Mayor's Writers in Residence series.

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