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An Hour with Clive Hamilton

‘Sometimes facing up to the truth is just too hard. There have been any number of urgent scientific reports in recent years emphasising just how dire the future looks and how little time we have left to act.

But around the world only a few have truly faced up to the facts about global warming.’ So writes Australian academic and public intellectual Clive Hamilton in his provocative new book, Requiem for a Species. Clive argues eloquently for people and governments to heed the warnings, take note of our human failings and be prepared to act now.

Clive Hamilton is the author or co-author of the best-selling Affluenza, Growth Fetish, Scorcher and Silencing Dissent. One of Australia’s leading thinkers, he is Charles Sturt Professor of Public Ethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, based at the Australian National University.

Clive will be in conversation with Ramona Koval, presenter of ABC Radio National’s daily The Book Show.