Dr Richard Cassels
Brisbane, Qld, Australia
Dr Richard Cassels – “The Real Climate Debate”
30 April (9-noon) face to face meeting @ Eco-centre Griffith University (RSVP reply email :invest gold coin donation)
An Archaeologist applies his perspective and a systems approach to Peak Humanity”.
- Climate / Carbon debate in Australia,
- identify the real issues that the so-called “Climate Debate” is obscuring,
- why the media are confused and the public misled,
- explain why Tony Abbott now cannot be Prime Minster of Australia, and
- archaeologist’s 3 million year perspective helps to understand Peak Humanity.
The Director of Climate Leadership, Richard Cassels, is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Queensland Museum in Environmental History and Sustainable Futures and a Governor of W.W.F. Australia. He is a popular public speaker on environmental issues.
In 2006 he directed the seminar series at the Queensland Museum entitled “Pioneering a Sustainable Queensland”.
In 2007 he convened at the Museum the popular seminar “Climate Change Down Under (see his overview of the seminar at mms://streamingserver.slq.qld.gov.au/video/qm/wmvb/CCDU/ccdu_Cassels.wmv)
In 2008 he convened and directed the Greenfest Speakers Festival at South Bank, Brisbane. For 25 years he managed museums in New Zealand and Australia. He was the manager responsible for producing Dandiiri Maiwar, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait islanders Cultures Centre at the Queensland Museum in Brisbane. Previously he was a Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at Auckland University, specialising in the environmental impact of prehistoric peoples. He and his wife Joan have created, and live in, a “more-sustainable” home in Brisbane (see ABC radio interview and photos on-line at http://www.abc.net.au/local/photos/2008/10/17/2394654.htm?site=brisbane).
9am coffee registration, share publications network
9.30 chair opens – roundtable
10 guest speaker & questions & actions
break
11.15 project updates
- Outcomes March Face-2-face meeting ( written)
- Summary Boonah Coal Seam Gas presentation ( written)
- Actions from RLOSAC (Monday) (written pls raise questions)
- Outcomes – Logan Environmental Forum ( written)
- Defending local democracy – ULDA under the spotlight - debate
- Karawatha instant city update
- E Petition on capping infrastructure charges-todays community pays for unwanted development?
- Qld Sustainability Commissioner Update & Parliament Visit (written)
- Other – open forum
Reflection & close
