Guest Dinner on 17th March, 2025

Mark Diesendorf (Honorary Associate Professor of Environment & Society at UNSW)  presented a broad strategy for transitioning from the present collapsing civilisation to an environmentally sustainable, fairer and more peaceful one. His recent book “How to Create a Sustainable Civilisation”, shows that technological change alone will not be sufficient for achieving such a transition; that we must also break free of the destructive economic and political ideologies that imprison us and our governments, preventing real change. He emphasised the critical action required, for groups to work together for powerful impact.

Here is a more formal version of his talk:
 ‘A strategy for resisting the vested interests driving the collapse of the biosphere and civilisation’, https://www.sciepublish.com/article/pii/460, was published in an international, open access, peer-reviewed journal.