“While campaigners and progressive politicians have been playing patience, power has been playing poker. The radical right’s insurgency has swept all before it…while we persuaded ourselves that there was no time for system change, they proved us wrong by changing everything.” – George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison, The Invisible Doctrine
It is clear that neoliberal thinking has failed Australians, and that privatisation of essential services has overwhelmingly benefitted shareholders not the public.
Yet with extinctions increasing and the climate and biodiversity crisis escalating, Australian governments continue to promote economic pragmatism and markets as the only policy solution to protect and restore the environment despite its failure to fix our biggest problems elsewhere.
Join George Monbiot, renowned journalist and author, in conversation with Director of the Australia Institute’s Climate and Energy program, Polly Hemming, on how incrementalism and neoliberal thinking is the cause, not the cure for, global ecosystem collapse.
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