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Listen to the world’s greatest minds live from WOMADelaide’s “The Planet Talks” stage. Fascinating conversations about our environment and sustainable relationship with the planet.
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Monday May 04, 2015
Monday May 04, 2015
Speakers: Andrew Denton, Rod Quantock, Hannah Gadsby
Host: Robyn Williams
Climate change is no laughing matter … or is it? Science or satire - how do we best communicate climate science and the urgency to act on the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced? Do more people turn to Will Ferrell’s climate change YouTube clips or Al Gore pie charts and PowerPoints for the truth? Are people more likely to share on social media Leigh Sales’ 7.30 interview with the world’s leading climate scientists or US political satirist John Oliver’s interviews with them? Who makes more sense of carbon politics, Andrew Bolt or Shaun Micallef? All will be revealed. Sit back and listen to the (comedy) experts.
Monday Apr 27, 2015
Monday Apr 27, 2015
Speakers: Vandana Shiva, Paul Sutton, Tim Jarvis
Host: Robyn Williams
A famous native American proverb says 'Only when the last tree has died, and the last river been poisoned, and the last fish been caught, will we realise we cannot eat money.' The panel's three leaders challenge this pessimistic prediction by discussing values - financial and what we love and care about - that we place on our land, food and water. They will range across themes including seed democracy, urbanisation and land management and what this means for the health of the planet and ourselves.
Monday Apr 27, 2015
Monday Apr 27, 2015
Speakers: Cecilia Woolford, Peter Langridge, Bob Brown
Host: Robyn Williams
Are our climate-altering activities hurtling us towards a bleak fate or is this the catalyst for a new era of environmentally sustainable ideas and innovation? Are we witnessing the dawning of an unstoppable wave of action and leadership? According to our panelists we do have the ideas, innovation, motivation and people to give us the hope that we can and will respond to the challenge. Listen to our visionary panel discuss the optimistic future they have seen emerging in business, agriculture, politics and society.
Wednesday Dec 10, 2014
Wednesday Dec 10, 2014
Speakers: Peter Ward, Chris Daniels, Peter Owen
Hosted by: Robyn Williams
Life on this planet is under extreme duress. The three pressures, whilst being interlinked and ultimately originating with humans all affect ecosystems in different ways. A warming earth affects the water cycle which ultimately determines the susceptibility of terrestrial landscapes to support life. Cities across the world are growing dramatically over the best land, and habitat clearance to support human needs eliminates biodiversity. What will the term biodiversity mean in 2100?
Peter, Chris and Peter talk about how great these three threats are, and how the earth can survive.
Wednesday Dec 10, 2014
Wednesday Dec 10, 2014
Speakers: Polly Higgins | Peter Garrett | Tim Flannery
Hosted by: Bernie Hobbs
Find out what happens when one of the world’s most visionary thinkers in the area of law and environmental action - Polly Higgins - meets Australia's leading environmental thinker, writer and activist Tim Flannery and former government minister, ACF president and Midnight Oil frontman Peter Garrett for a frank conversation about why and how the law and legislation must tackle climate change.
Monday Dec 08, 2014
Monday Dec 08, 2014
Speakers: Paul Gilding | Simon Holmes à Court | Richard Slaughter
Hosted by: Robyn Williams
With a change of government and climate change action policy, where to now for “the greatest moral, economic and social challenge of our time”?
Our panel discuss some of the social, corporate and political structures that we still have at our disposal to deal with a planet wide emergency now and into the future.
Monday Dec 08, 2014
Monday Dec 08, 2014
Speakers: Tim Hollo | Simon Sheikh | Ane Brun
Hosted by: Bernie Hobbs
Generation Z are the most globally exposed and connected generation in the history of the planet. They will inherit any mess made by their parents and grandparents but are they more concerned about celebrity culture and low carb diets than climate change and low carbon economies? With the oldest Generation Z turning 19 this year how do we activate their hearts and minds to consider climate change action as their priority? This panel looks at musicians, role models and ways to harness the power and influence of the most digitally engaged and globally connected generation we’ve ever seen.
Monday Dec 08, 2014
Monday Dec 08, 2014
Speakers: Tom Wigley | Steffen Lehmann | Amie Albrecht
Hosted by: Bernie Hobbs
Thanks to the latest research from a host of the world’s most respected climate scientists like Tom Wigley, the weight of evidence pointing to the human role in changing our weather is now beyond compelling. Consequently, if their forecasts of climate change increases do occur, life in our most densely populated areas face an unprecedented and urgent call to action.
With 26 cities on the planet currently housing between 10 and 20 million people each and projections of a future with 11 billion people on the planet including the first 100 million person cities, this panel looks at up to date research on how and why our climate may change and how our built environs and transport systems must adapt to accommodate life in future mega cities.
Monday Dec 08, 2014
Monday Dec 08, 2014
Speakers: Annabel Crabb | Tory Shepherd | Tanya Ha
Hosted by: Robyn Williams
The Media, MPs and Mothers all play vital roles in shaping our emotional (Kirk) and rational (Spock) attitudes to environmental action.
How do they frame a climate change message in ways that are relevant, accurate and meaningful to their audiences?
Our panel of expert science, environment and politics communicators discuss some of the social, cultural, political and psychological machinations behind the things we see, hear and read about climate change.