Utopia is Now

Professor Karoly was leader of the Earth Systems and Climate Change Hub in the Australian Government’s National Environmental Science Program, based in CSIRO, during 2018 to June 2021. During 2012-2017, he was a member of the Climate Change Authority, which provides advice to the Australian government on responding to climate change, including targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. He was involved in the Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 2001, 2007, 2014 and 2021 in several different roles and was a part of the revered group of IPCC authors who shared the Nobel Peace prize with Al Gore in 2007. He was awarded the 2015 Royal Society of Victoria Medal for Scientific Excellence in Earth Sciences and elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2019.  

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0:00 - Teaser

1:54 - Intro to David Karoly 

12:01 - The Moral Sentiments of a Climate Scientist 

22:54 - What is the current state of the climate 

30:32 - How has David coped with conducting research and consistently encountering distressing evidence for 40+ years? 

38:47 - Climate Change & Social Justice 

46:10 - Climate change as Class War 

51:23  - How do you manage to take time for yourself in the face of the Sisyphean task of fighting against climate inaction? 

57-52 - “Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone”. -J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye.  If you could, what would you stick under a big glass case? 

1:00:52 - What can people do to help fight climate injustice?  

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Music: A Journey Through The Universe – Lesion X

Rob Karpati is a long-term finance leader in multi-national corporate environments. Focusing on strategic transformation and on global process optimization over a 30+ year career, Rob's strength has been integrating complex end-to-end processes in ways that optimize value across multiple stakeholders. Using Finance as a business improvement ‘activator’, Rob has worked cross-culturally and cross-regionally in bringing together diverse stakeholders toward common perspectives on overall value.

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0:00 - Who is Rob? 

3:01 - Who are Artisanal Miners and what is their Story? 

6:51 - What materials/minerals are mined by Artisanal Miners and how does it impact the Global North 

11:07 - What are the characteristics of artisanal miners? 14:55 - Where are Artisanal Miners mainly located? 

16:41 - What is the day-to-day life of an artisanal miner? 

32:23 - How can the artisanal mining industry be formalised?  

36:10 - Does formalisation of work really provide workers with dignity? 

44:34 - Is growth in key mineral extraction positively correlated with negative impacts on artisanal miners? 

47:56- Can we improve the standards of Artisanal Miners without having the need to have shareholders of mining firms profiteering? 

53:59 - What can people do to help artisanal miners?

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Music: A Journey Through The Universe – Lesion X

Gordon Menzies obtained a (First Class) Honours degree from the University of New England in 1985. He won the Robert Jones Prize for the best Masters student at the Australian National University in 1997, and he won a Commonwealth Scholarship to undertake doctoral studies at Oxford University over 1998 to 2001. Prior to joining the University of Technology Sydney in 2003 he was 'in the room' of policymakers during the transformation of the Australian economy by the Hawke-Keating governments. From 1986 until 2003, he was an economist at the Reserve Bank of Australia. 

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Gordon Menzies: https://profiles.uts.edu.au/gordon.me...

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0:00 - Teaser

0:40 - Gordon Menzies Introduction 

1:41 - What is Fundamentalism & how are we in the West fundamentalists? 

5:03 - What is the importance of having first principles? 

11:31 - Possession of ‘unprovable beliefs’ 

19:21 - Is there a problem with being a fundamentalist, especially a Western fundamentalist? 

35:50 - What are ‘Unthinking Responses’ and how can this help us examine our first principles 

39:32 - Can we be friends with people who hold fundamentally different beliefs? 

46:12 - How can we promote critical thinking?

50:07 - Do policymakers have a view that economics takes primacy over issues such as moral goodness, environmental protection and being a person of virtue? 

1:05:12 - Is Economic Growth a western fundamental? 

1:14:17 - Do we have to bring an end to Capitalism? 

1:20:25 - Limits: Why Malthus was Wrong  

1:28:36 - What ought we do in an age where political discourse has been hallowed out by economists and technocrats? 

1:40:21 - Promoting alternative scripts of living 

1:50:58 - What is Gordon’s Utopia?

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Thumbnail: Scuola di Atene by Rafael Sanzio da Urbino

Professor Jacqui Ewart was a journalist and media manager for more than a decade. She has worked as an academic for the past 25 years. Professor Jacqui Ewart's research focuses on communication across various phases of disasters and the involvement of politicians in disasters. She also researches news media representations of various minority groups including Muslims and Indigenous Australians. 

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Jacqui Ewart: https://experts.griffith.edu.au/18772...

Jacqui's Twitter: @jacquiewart 

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0:00 - Teaser

0:36 - Who is Jacqueline Ewart? 

6:53 -  What are disasters & the need for effective disaster communication 

12:58-  What is disaster communication? 

16:57 - How do journalists influence good/bad communication 

24:02 - How do people respond in disasters? 

29:08 - Covid & Climate Change Disaster Communication

37:24  - Merchants of Doubt 

44:32 - A Quick Game with Professor Jacquie 

50:28 - How do we communicate effectively in an age of misinformation? 

55:11 - How does storytelling inform effective communication? 

58:52 - What is Jacqui Ewart’s Utopia?

Professor James Hope-Ward (PhD) is the current Dean of Programs for STEM at the University of South Australia (UniSA). James has a mixed background in civil engineering and environmental science, putting himself under the broad heading of "environmental engineering". At UniSA, James coordinates two courses relating to hydraulics and environmental modeling. His research involves the study of big-picture sustainability problems such as the limits to the planet’s energy supplies, climate change and economic growth.  

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0:00 - James’s Story & The Problem with Green Growth 

15:33 - James Research, Relative v Absolute Decoupling, Upholding the Status Quo 

30:19 - The Growth Paradox, Long-Termism & Decentralising Power 

55:54 - What is the Way Forward? 

1:00:34 - What is James’s Utopia?   

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Music: A Journey Through The Universe – Lesion X

Timothée Parrique is a social scientist, originally from Versailles, France. He is currently a researcher at the School of Economics and Management of Lund University (Sweden).He holds a PhD in economics from the Centre d’Études et de Recherches sur le Développement (University of Clermont Auvergne, France) and the Stockholm Resilience Centre (Stockholm University, Sweden). Titled “The political economy of degrowth” (2019), his dissertation explores the economic implications of degrowth.   

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Tim's Website: https://timotheeparrique.com/

Tim's Twitter: @timparrique 

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0:00: Who is Timothee? 

4:28: How did Timothee discover Degrowth? 

10:30: What is Degrowth & How does this differ from other Economic Thought? 

16:53:  The importance of detaching growth from prosperity 

31:07 - What & who is an economy for? 

44:40 - What are the Philosophical underpinnings of degrowth? 

59:28- What would Tim’s Degrowth Utopia look like? 

1:07:21 - How can we enact Degrowth now?  

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Music: A Journey Through The Universe – Lesion X

Kate Crowley is Associate Professor of Public and Environmental Policy at the University of Tasmania. She is widely published on green politics and environmental policy and has chaired advisory councils such as the Tasmanian Environment Industry Council, the Tasmanian Climate Action Council and the University of Tasmania's Board of Graduate Research. Her books include Australian Environmental Policy: Studies in decline and devolution (with Ken Walker) (1999); Minority government: The Liberal Green experience in Tasmania (2012); Environmental policy failure: The Australian story (2012)(with Ken Walker); and Policy Analysis in Australia: The State of the Art (with Brian Head) (2015).

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0:00 - Introduction 

5:04 - Why was the 2022 Australian Election so important? 

10:32 - What was the outcome of the election? 

16:46 - What are the implications of a labor-majority parliament? 

25:06 - What are the impacts of Australia’s climate policy across the globe? 

30:27 - What is the Green New Deal? 

38:40 - Should we push for a Green New Deal? 

45:17 - A environmental policy expert’s predictions on Australia’s environmental policy 

49:25 - What is Kate Crowley's Utopia?

Director of Energy Finance Studies (Australia/South Asia), Tim Buckley has 25 years of financial market experience covering the Australian, Asian and global equity markets from both a buy and sell-side perspective. Tim was a top-rated equity research analyst and has covered most sectors of the Australian economy. For many years, Tim was a managing director, head of equity research at Citigroup, as well as co-managing director of Arkx Investment Management P/L, a global listed clean energy investment company that was jointly owned by management and Westpac Banking Group. 

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

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0:00 - Teaser 

1:01 - Introduction to Tim Buckley 

7:54 - Overview of Climate Change & Finance 

17:24 - Has the finance industry been moving to reflect the breakdown of the climate? 

24:48 - The Economic Case for Renewables 

37:11 - Is the real reason for climate inaction cognitive bias, not self-interest ?  

44:48 - The Australian Election & Climate Politics 53:13 - What can we, the people, do to enact change?

Carl is the Dean of the Business School at the University of Technology, Sydney. Carl has held professorships at Swansea University, The University of Leicester, and Macquarie University. Prior to his academic career, Carl worked in professional and senior management positions in change management and organizational development for AGL Energy, Lend Lease, Citibank and The Boston Consulting Group. Carl’s combination of senior experience in academia and the private sector provides him with a unique perspective on how business and economic activity can and should contribute to society.

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 Carl Rhodes: https://profiles.uts.edu.au/Carl.Rhodes

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0:00 - Intro 

1:50 - The Narrative of Woke Capitalism 

7:07 - What is Woke Capitalism & Why is it a threat to democracy 

16:06 - What is the problem with people of power intervening on issues pertaining to the public good? 

21:40 - Does a truly selfless act exist? 

30:47 - Game Show: Woke Or Nope? 

47:14 - What is the solution? What is the Utopia? 

51:28  - What can students do to avoid Woke Capitalism 

56:12 - Where should the power lie? Closing Statements

Christian is the co-founder of management consultancy ReD Associates & Professor of Applied Humanities at The New School and Senior Partner in Red Associates. Christian's work is based on his interest in the practical application of the Human Sciences. Christian teaches philosophy at The New School in New York City and helps out in larger organizations as an advisor.

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0:00 - Christian’s Story & His Heroes 

13:44 - Heidegger, Technology & Nature 

19:46 - How do we reconcile capitalist systems with the need to preserve the world? 

27:03 - Human Intelligence in a world of Big Data 

33:47 - The Value of the Humanities & its importance in human progress 

39:05 - An Anthropologist Walks Into a Bar.... 

45:21 - How Anthropology can solve problems 

54:03 - Social Sciences and Ignorance '

59:56 - What is Christian’s Utopia?

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ReD Associates  

Sensemaking: The Power of the Humanities in the Age of the Algorithm by Christian Madsbjerg 

The Question Concerning Technology by Martin Heidegger 

Nassim Nicholas Taleb  

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Thumbnail: Illustration by Tim Robinson 

Music: A Journey Through The Universe – Lesion X