Book launch: The Secure and the Dispossessed
When: November 25, 2015
What if government and corporate elites have given up on stopping climate change and prefer to try to manage its consequences instead? In the week before the UN climate talks in Paris, this event will examine issues raised by a new book, The Secure and the Dispossessed: How the Military and Corporations are Shaping a Climate-Changed World.
The book unveils a new climate security agenda in which dystopian preparations by the powerful are already fuelling militarised security responses to the unfolding climate crisis. But it also puts forward and tells the stories of the inspiring alternatives that promise a just transition to a climate-changed world.
Speakers include:
- Ben Hayes, Statewatch
- Asad Rehman, Friends of the Earth
- Nick Buxton, Transnational Institute
- Additional speakers TBA
6:30pm, 25 November 2015, Free Word Centre, 60 Farringdon Road, London EC1R 3GA
‘A tremendous book that shows how the few intend to profit from climate change and how the many can stop it happening.’ John Vidal, Guardian
‘Will we respond to the climate crisis with the politics of fear and business as usual – and in so doing condemn millions? Or will we wrest power from the corporations and the military in order to develop the radical just solutions we need?’ Pablo Solon, Former Ambassador to Bolivia and lead climate negotiator to the UN
