| Jul ’10 |
| 21 |
| 7:30 pm |
What is Happening:
TILTING AT WINDMILLS AND BEYOND
Geoff Mosley has been a conservationist in Australia for 50 years. In this talk he will take a no holds barred look at conservation over the last half century and make some suggestions for a significantly improved effort in the future. Geoff focuses on three topics: the National Reserve System; the National Heritage Protection System and the history of big ideas for Australia.
Australia rides on the back of a never ending resources boom and the public is meekly supportive. Land use is manipulated to cater for this quarry role and for the provision of infrastructure and services for a growing population. The environment movement sees its primary role as mitigating the effects of the quarry goal on particular resources and parts of the environment and fails to examine either the causes or the alternatives. Hence it has not modified in any way the expansionist paradigm.
A better global approach would see each region living within its environmental means. Geoff will also examine this alternative and the potential for Australia to play a major role in the transformation.
Geoff has researched extensively the “Steady State Alternative” economic paradigm and will be happy to answer questions on this topic. His book ‘Steady State: Alternative to Endless Economic Growth’ will be coming out in early October.
Where is it On?: CSIRO Discovery Centre, Acton – uphill from the roundabout on Clunies Ross Drive
RSVP?: No need – just turn up – the theatre is large (and heated!)
Contact details: Keith Thomas, Nature and Society Forum, 0412 487 625
