Utopia is Now

Professor Harini Nagendra is the Director of the Research Centre at Azim Premji University in Bangalore, India, and leads the University’s Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability. Nagendra is known for her research spanning over 30 years on forest conservation, and urban sustainability, with several seminal publications in both areas of work. Her interdisciplinary work on forests combines remote sensing, biodiversity studies, and institutional analysis, and is recognised for elucidating the link between pattern and process in the human-dominated landscapes of South Asia.

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Music: A Journey Through The Universe – Lesion X

#ecology #climatechange #india

Donnie Maclurcan Ph.D. leads the Post Growth Institute, an international organization exploring how we thrive within ecological limits. Believing purpose-driven enterprise is at the heart of a healthy market economy, he has consulted to over 500 not-for-profit projects and businesses, across 32 countries. His own initiatives include leading the development of the Offers and Needs Market, the Post Growth Fellowship, the Post Growth Alliance, Free Money Day, the (En)Rich List, the Not for Profit Way training, and the globally active #postgrowth hashtag. Affiliate Professor of Economics at Southern Oregon University and a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts, Donnie is working on his fourth book: How on Earth: our future is not for profit.

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Post-Growth Institute: https://www.postgrowth.org/

Paper Mentioned: https://bit.ly/3gg6E6B

Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3jkFkD3

Apple Podcast: https://apple.co/3A4PPjZ

Google Podcast: https://bit.ly/2SwB9Jr

Instagram/Twitter/Linkedin: @utopiaisnow

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Music: A Journey Through The Universe – Lesion X

Chris has more than 15 years of experience in researching climate policy and climate communications. Chris is also a contributing author for the IPCC Working Group I Sixth Assessment Report, serves as a Non-Executive Director of the award-winning environmental news organization DeSmog, is an Associate of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, and holds the position of Research Associate in the School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex. Chris's new book is titled Liberalism and the Challenge of Climate Change, which is the subject of the following podcast.

Tim Buckley, Director, Climate Energy Finance (CEF) has 30 years of financial market experience covering the Australian, Asian and global equity markets from both a buy and sell side perspective. Tim was formerly Director Energy Finance Studies, Australia/South Asia, IEEFA, and was a Managing Director, Head of Equity Research at Citigroup for 17 years until 2008.

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Contact: Tim Buckley: https://au.linkedin.com/in/tim-buckley-0a654313

Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3jkFkD3Apple Podcast: https://apple.co/3A4PPjZ

Google Podcast: https://bit.ly/2SwB9Jr

Instagram/Twitter/Linkedin: @utopiaisnow

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0:00 - Why is Finance important for mitigating the ecological crisis?

9:30 - How is the green energy transition going?

29:23 - Are we decarbonising fast enough?

36:49 - Tim on governments being captured by fossil fuel interests

43:52 - How can financial analysts justify investing in fossil fuel companies?

54:59 - Parting thoughts

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Rodolfo Dirzo is Professor of Biology and Earth Systems Science at Stanford University. Rodolfo's scientific work examines the study of species interactions in tropical ecosystems from California, Latin America, and other tropical areas of the world. Recent research highlights the decline of animal life (“defaunation”), and how this affects ecosystem processes/services (e.g. disease regulation). Rodolfo teaches ecology, natural history, conservation biology, and biocultural diversity at undergraduate and graduate levels at Stanford, and conducts science education programs with underserved children in the Bay Area.

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Lionel Page is a Professor of Economics and the Director of the Behavioural and Economic Science Cluster at the University of Queensland. He has worked on a wide range of topics in behavioural economics, such as risk preferences, social preferences and strategic behaviour.

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Aaron Vansintjan is the Author of 'The Future is Degrowth' & Co-Editor of Uneven Earth. Aaron completed his PhD Candidate in the Department of Film, Media, and Cultural Studies at Birkbeck, University of London. He studies gentrification in Montreal and Hanoi. His PhD research draws on the fields of urban geography, comparative urbanism, political ecology, ecological economics, and food studies.  

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0:00 - Teaser

0:41 - Who is Aaron and his pathway from Philosophy 

8:41 - What Degrowth Isn’t 

17:06 - The History of Growth 

25:11 - Fragmentation, isolation & the consequent impacts on communal care 

32:44 - Is capitalism to blame for ecological, economical, social and spiritual damage? 

39:30 - How can Degrowth be implemented in practice? 

45:43 -  CRITIQUE OF DEGROWTH 1 - Matt Huber’s Class Critique of Degrowth - Aaron’s Rebuttal 

55:02 - More Degowth Policies to appeal to the ecologically minded and the working class 

1:06:20 -  CRITIQUE OF DEGROWTH 2  - Ought we be A-Growth rather than Degrowth? - Aaron’s Rebuttal 

1:17:47 - What is Aaron’s Utopia (as a critic and sci-fi writer)  

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Music: A Journey Through The Universe – Lesion X