WOMADelaide - The Planet Talks

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...

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 conversat...

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 fu...

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 yea...

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 f...

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 discu...