The Path to a Sustainable Civilisation shows that we have unwittingly fallen into an existential crisis of our own making. We have allowed large corporations, the military and other vested interests to capture governments and influence public opinion excessively.
This book argues that the way out of our black hole is to build social movements to apply overwhelming pressure on government and big business, to weaken the power of vested interests and to strengthen democratic decision-making.
Hosted by the Environment and Society Group, join this online event with Dr Mark Diesendorf to discuss how to transition into a truly sustainable civilisation.
Dr Mark Diesendorf is Honorary Associate Professor in the Environment and Society Group in the School of Humanities & Languages at UNSW Sydney. He is also Senior Editor for Energy of the international journal Global Sustainability. In 1996–2001, he was Professor of Environmental Science and Founding Director of the Institute for Sustainable Futures at University of Technology Sydney. His most recent books are The Path to a Sustainable Civilisation: Technological, Socioeconomic and Political Change (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) and Sustainable Energy Solutions for Climate Change (UNSW Press and Routledge, 2014).
