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SUMMARY:Talk: Strategies to protect planet and people
DESCRIPTION:Registration recommended but not essential
 
 2:30 pm\, Satur
 day 7 November\, St Andrews Uniting Church\, corner of Vernon Street and C
 hisholm Street\, Turramurra
 An AGM offers a suitable time to pause and r
 eflect on our strategies for protecting the environment of planet Earth\, 
 an entity of huge intrinsic value as well as our life support system. Dr M
 ark Diesendorf will discuss two strategic approaches. 
 The first\, whi
 ch comes from environmental science\, considers the three principal driver
 s of environmental impact to be population\, affluence (defined as GDP per
  person) and technology.
 The second\, which comes from political science
  and political economy\, considers the immense power of vested interests i
 n influencing government and society\, and shaping the economy\, to serve 
 their ends.
 Both approaches suggest that environmental protection\, soci
 al justice and the economic system are inseparable and that we must campai
 gn to improve them jointly as well as individually.
 Mark was originally 
 a physicist who expanded into interdisciplinary research on energy and sus
 tainability. Previously he was Professor of Environmental Science and Foun
 ding Director of the Institute for Sustainable Futures at University of Te
 chnology Sydney. Currently he is Honorary Associate Professor in Environme
 nt and Society at UNSW Sydney.
 Mark is lead author of The Path to a Sust
 ainable Civilisation: Technological\, Socioeconomic and Political Change 
 (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2023).
LOCATION:St Andrews Uniting Church\, Chisholm St\, South Turramurra NSW 207
 4\, Australia
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