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Tim Flannery

  • Copenhagen and Beyond: Conference Bound

    Tim Flannery | The Monthly Essays | Environment | Foreign Affairs | November 2009 | Politics
    For all their importance, the international climate negotiations have hardly been pursued with urgency. Until recently, they have been somewhat Wagnerian in character: seemingly interminable and with expectations of resolution eternally denied. In September, however, something happened that set the...

  • Goodbye to All That: James Lovelock’s "The Vanishing Face of Gaia"

    Tim Flannery | June 2009 | Books | Environment | Society & Culture
    James Lovelock's latest book, The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning (Allen Lane, 192pp; $29.95), has an important message. In a few years, or a few decades at most, abrupt changes in Earth's climate will begin, which will end up killing almost all of us and cause the extinction of almost all...

  • Comment: Carbon Omissions

    Tim Flannery | May 2009 | The Nation Reviewed | Environment
     Over the past four years, there has been immeasurable progress on climate change - in public awareness, in media interest and in the political response to the problem. In early 2005, one of us was completing The Weather Makers; the other was working at 10 Downing Street, advising Tony Blair...

  • The Third Wave

    Tim Flannery | April 2009 | The Nation Reviewed | Environment
    As I write, in mid March, a geriatric sandy-coloured rat wanders his enclosure at the Alice Springs Desert Park. Death can't be far off for the poor creature, which would hardly matter except that, as far as anybody knows, he's the last central rock-rat on Earth. The species once abounded...

  • SlowTV: Now or Never: Tim Flannery in conversation with Robert Manne on climate change

    Tim Flannery | Climate change | Environment | Interview | Melbourne | Video | Society
    Now or Never: Tim Flannery in conversation with Robert Manne on climate change
    Two of Australia's leading public intellectuals, Robert Manne and Tim Flannery, engage in a compelling discussion about climate change. Flannery, author of the recent Quarterly Essay, Now or Never: A Sustainable Future for Australia?, speaks of the latest climate projections and the acceleratin... » play video

  • SlowTV: Tim Flannery: A Vision for Australian Sustainability

    Tim Flannery | Climate change | Environment | Lecture | Melbourne | Video | Society
    Tim Flannery: A Vision for Australian Sustainability
    Speaking on the topic of climate change, Tim Flannery details the many challenges facing mankind if it is to mitigate the worst impacts that have been predicted. But in this powerful address he also puts forwards some means to reduce carbon emissions, proven solutions that he suggests must be employ... » play video

  • SlowTV: Tim Flannery (p2): A Vision for Australian Sustainability

    Tim Flannery | Lecture | Melbourne
    Tim Flannery (p2): A Vision for Australian Sustainability
    Speaking on the topic of climate change, Tim Flannery details the many challenges facing mankind if it is to mitigate the worst impacts that have been predicted. But in this powerful address he also puts forwards some means to reduce carbon emissions, proven solutions that he suggests must be employ... » play video

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