Climate Change Capitalism and Corporations
Climate change is the greatest challenge we will face this century. Indeed, the worst-case scenarios paint an unimaginable vision of large tracts of the Earth rendered uninhabitable, the collapse of global food production, mass species extinction, the acidification of the oceans, substantial sea-level rises and storms and droughts of growing intensity. Yet, despite the need for dramatic economic and political change, corporate capitalism continues to rely on the maintenance of ‘business as usual’. In this special event a panel of leading thinkers explore how business has responded to the climate crisis and what a more constructive role might involve? Based on the new book Climate Change, Capitalism and Corporations: Processes of Creative Self-Destruction by Christopher Wright and Daniel Nyberg, discussion will explore the links between corporate capitalism and human-induced climate disruption, the dominance of a ‘fossil fuels forever’ imaginary, and the possibility of alternatives to ‘business as usual’. About the Speakers - Clive Hamilton is Professor of Public Ethics at Charles Sturt University - Christopher Wright is Professor of Organisational Studies and leader of the Balanced Enterprise Research Network (BERN) at the University of Sydney Business School - Daniel Nyberg is Professor of Management at Newcastle Business School and an Honorary Professor at the University of Sydney - David Ritter is the Chief Executive Officer of Greenpeace Australia Pacific - Amanda McKenzie (chair) is an environmental leader and CEO of the Climate Council Video courtesy of Marcel Zammit, Bombora Audio Visual
