Tackling climate chaos

Saturday, February 28, 2009 - 11:00

The only hope for stopping climate change is the political movement fostered by the recent Climate Action Summit and the groups forming all over the country, according to author Clive Hamilton at a February 25 meeting at the University of Western Australia.

Hamilton criticised the reverence accorded to the pursuit of economic growth since the 1970s and was scathing of the federal government's proposed emissions trading scheme.

From GLW issue 785

Tags:

Perth

Support glw

"Without Green Left Weekly, freedom of press and public truth-telling in Australia would be gravely ill." John Pilger

Donate securely online - every cent you donate helps us to keep going.

Links

Get in touch

Don't just get informed, get active! Receive regular emails about GLW & progressive events in your area.

get connected

join us on facebook follow our tweets add us to your rss feed

about GLW - the need for alternative media

In these days of growing media concentration, Green Left Weekly is a proudly independent voice committed to human and civil rights, global peace and environmental sustainability, democracy and equality. By printing the news and ideas the mainstream media won't, Green Left Weekly exposes the lies and distortions of the power brokers and helps us to better understand the world around us.

Green Left Weekly, launched in 1990 by progressive activists to present the views excluded by the big business media, is now Australia's leading source of local, national and international news, analysis, and discussion and debate to strengthen the anti-capitalist movements.