CLIVE HAMILTON: CONTENTIOUS CLIMATE COLLAPSE TRUTH - how the “Electrify Everything” message + private schools could be our downfall if we don’t change course

Aug 27, 2024

Clive Hamilton, a prominent climate activist and professor at Charles Sturt University, argues that traditional climate mitigation strategies are now unrealistic. He advocates for focusing on survival instead. The conversation dives into the flaws of the 'electrify everything' movement, the implications of private schooling on class inequality, and the necessity for grassroots efforts in climate adaptation. Clive highlights Australia's role in the climate crisis and the importance of integrating Indigenous knowledge to enhance disaster preparedness.

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Intro

00:00 • 2min

Confronting Climate Realities

01:46 • 16min

Navigating Australia's Energy Transition

18:03 • 16min

Resilience and Rebuilding in Australia

33:51 • 8min

The Importance of Indigenous Knowledge in Natural Disaster Preparedness

41:30 • 2min

Confronting Climate Realities

43:01 • 17min

Class, Race, and Gender Inequality in Australia

01:00:19 • 13min

Exploring Privilege and Climate Collapse: A Call to Action

01:13:31 • 3min

This One Wild and Precious Life

Sarah Wilson

In this book, Sarah Wilson embarks on a three-year soul's journey, hiking around the world to find a path through the complexities of climate change, the pandemic, racial inequalities, and our disconnection from what truly matters. Drawing on science, literature, philosophy, and the wisdom of leading experts, Wilson provides a blueprint for living a wilder, more connected life. She advocates for 'wild practices' such as embracing discomfort, breaking the cycle of mindless consumption, and reconnecting with nature and others. The book is a call to action, encouraging readers to step outside the zeitgeist and find a more joyful and sustainable existence.

Growth Fetish

Clive Hamilton

Requiem for a species

Clive Hamilton

Affluenza

Richard Denniss

Clive Hamilton

Living Hot

Surviving and Thriving on a Heating Planet

George Wilkenfeld

Clive Hamilton

The Privileged Few

Male and white privilege are on the decline, yet elite privilege has gone from strength to strength. The privileges enjoyed by the rich and powerful are not only unfair but cause widespread harm, from the everyday slights and humiliations visited on those lower down the scale to the distortions in the labour market when elites use their networks to secure plum jobs, not least in new domains such as professional sports. In this book, Clive Hamilton and Myra Hamilton show that elite privilege is not a mere by-product of wealth but an organising principle for society as a whole. They explore the practices and processes that sustain, legitimise and reproduce elite privilege and show how we are all implicated in the system, both facilitating it and tolerating its harmful effects. Building on their original fieldwork and a wide range of other sources, the authors paint a vivid picture of the micropolitics of elite privilege, highlighting in particular the vital role played by exclusive private schools. Ranging across topics as diverse as ‘glamour suburbs’, philanthropy, Rhodes scholarships and super-yachts, The Privileged Few delves beneath attempts at concealment to expose how the elites keep getting away with it.

Myra Hamilton

Clive Hamilton