The blessed unrest
Paul Hawken is an environmentalist, entrepreneur, journalist and author. Since the age of 20, he’s dedicated his life to sustainability and changing the relationship between business and the environment. Speaking at the Wheeler Centre with Alexandra de Blas, Hawken discusses his work, his writing an...
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ftapo:oai:apo.org.au:27897 2023-05-15T16:29:13+02:00 The blessed unrest Paul Hawken Worldwide 2012-01-27 00:00:00 http://apo.org.au/node/27897 unknown Wheeler Centre http://apo.org.au/node/27897 Video lecture/presentation 2012 ftapo 2020-05-20T09:43:47Z Paul Hawken is an environmentalist, entrepreneur, journalist and author. Since the age of 20, he’s dedicated his life to sustainability and changing the relationship between business and the environment. Speaking at the Wheeler Centre with Alexandra de Blas, Hawken discusses his work, his writing and why this era is “not remotely close to capitalism, in a pure sense of the word.” Hawken explains how the inspiration for his most recent book, Blessed Unrest, came from his experience of the Seattle World Trade Organisation protest in 1999, an action he attended “not as a writer, but just as somebody who wanted to sit down and get arrested.” He discusses the “sunset effect” of climate change denial and describes population growth and our move to cities as “ecological, biological arks” to help us survive the “flood of stupidity we created”. The American also discusses his fact-finding mission in Greenland — which he says gave him a “profound appreciation for the valour of the scientists” — and talks about the extreme climatic volatility that lies ahead. Presented in partnership with the Australian Conservation Foundation. Lecture Greenland Australian Policy Online (Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology) Greenland |
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Paul Hawken is an environmentalist, entrepreneur, journalist and author. Since the age of 20, he’s dedicated his life to sustainability and changing the relationship between business and the environment. Speaking at the Wheeler Centre with Alexandra de Blas, Hawken discusses his work, his writing and why this era is “not remotely close to capitalism, in a pure sense of the word.” Hawken explains how the inspiration for his most recent book, Blessed Unrest, came from his experience of the Seattle World Trade Organisation protest in 1999, an action he attended “not as a writer, but just as somebody who wanted to sit down and get arrested.” He discusses the “sunset effect” of climate change denial and describes population growth and our move to cities as “ecological, biological arks” to help us survive the “flood of stupidity we created”. The American also discusses his fact-finding mission in Greenland — which he says gave him a “profound appreciation for the valour of the scientists” — and talks about the extreme climatic volatility that lies ahead. Presented in partnership with the Australian Conservation Foundation. |
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