Why has humanity failed to slow the pace of climate change? - How ‘sticky thinking’ has stopped societies from responding
Speaker: Graeme Maxton
Date & Time: Saturday 16 March 2024 11.00am via Zoom
A talk by Graeme Maxton, best-selling author, climate change economist, and former Secretary General of the Club of Rome.
Rich-world thinking has established and perpetuated an approach to human development that is based on resource extraction for excessive consumption. This approach has generated so much pollution that it has taken the planet close to the point of ecological collapse, and reduced the well-being, dignity and harmony of people and communities throughout the world. Societies have been unable to respond to the crisis because the dominant worldview of the majority of people in the rich world makes effective change impossible.
Graeme Maxton has long been associated with the Club of Rome, an organisation created to address the multiple crises facing humanity and the planet. Its 1972 report The Limits to Growth shook the world. He served as the Secretary General from 2014 until 2018.
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The talk will be recorded via Zoom and the recording circulated to ticketholders after the event.
Graeme Maxton is the author of seven internationally acclaimed books on climate change, energy, economics, and the automotive industry, published in more than 20 different language editions. He was previously Secretary General of the Club of Rome. He is an Advisory Board Member on the UN’s Energy Pathways Project, and a member of the Editorial Advisory Board at Population Matters.
Before his election as Secretary General of the Club of Rome, he was a Regional Director with the Economist Group in Asia where he also chaired The Economist’s Conferences on aviation, energy, business in China, manufacturing and automotive as well as Government Roundtables. He was previously with strategy consultants Booz Allen Hamilton, in banking with Citibank and American Express, and a visiting professor at Cass Business School in London.
“Maxton is a thinker of astonishing depth and breadth, one to speak the tough truths that many other academics, politicians, and commentators avoid.” Huffington Post
Graeme’s 2013 TedX talk will be of interest: https://youtu.be/7BQKIhXMx90?si=0E6VCg2_GCKV3jTG
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