The CIS is once again pleased to host the annual Big Ideas Forum, featuring a panel of experts discussing issues of key importance to society both domestically and globally. This year’s panel will feature, Dr Austin Williams, Director of the London-based Future Cities Project, and author of Enemies of Progress: The Dangers of Sustainability, and Dr Patrick Michaels, US climatologist, environmental science professor, and co-author of Climate of Extremes: Global Warming Science They Don’t Want You to Know, with additional speakers to be announced.
Where humanity once solved the world’s problems, we are now viewed as the source. We no longer take pride in dynamic progress to benefit mankind; we bemoan the so-called carbon footprint that this progress will leave. Experimentation and entrepreneurship are being replaced by conformity and rules, and we are becoming a panicky, sensationalist and risk-averse society. Doom and disaster merchants, feeding off genuine crises such as the current financial crash, stymie big ideas and development and encourage government intervention and restrictions.
From the optimism and grand thinking of the Victorians to the current day pessimism, what has happened to the idea of progress?
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Venue:
Macquarie Auditorium, Level 3, No. 1 Martin Place, Sydney
Time:
5:45pm for a 6:00pm start
Cost:
Members - $22.00 inc. GST
Non-Members - $27.50 inc. GST
Students, Pensioners and Concessions - $11.00 inc. GST
Bookings:
To book online please visit click here or contact CIS Events Assistant, Alanna Elliott, at aelliott@cis.org.au or on
(02) 9438 4377. |