Arnagretta Hunter is a cardiologist based in Canberra and a Clinical Senior Lecturer at the Australian National University Medical School. She is also Human Futures Fellow at the ANU College of Health and Medicine and part of the Commission for the Human Future, an ANU initiative which brings together researchers and thinkers to promote ways we can prevent human extinction.
With Arnagretta, we talked about growing up on a farm, the impact of the climate crisis on human health, science denial in politics, and the powers of imagination, utopia and dystopia for change.
References mentioned during this episode:
Commission for the Human Future
Doctors for the Environment Australia
Australia21
Global Green and Healthy Hospitals
Climaginaries
Surviving & Thriving in the 21st Century, Commission for the Human Future
Doctors need to meet challenge of climate change, InSight+
The carbon footprint of Australian health care, The Lancet
We Can Waste Another Crisis, or We Can Transform the Economy, Jacobin Mag
'Cashed-up activists’ should not be able to hold up developments, Australia's resources minister says, The Guardian
Yuval Noah Harari
From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want, Rob Hopkins
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming, David Wallace-Wells
Men at Work: Australia’s Parenthood Trap, Annabel Crabb
Climate Change and the People's Health, Sharon Friel
How Democracy Ends, David Runciman
Agency, William Gibson