The second World at a Crossroads; Climate Change, Social Change conference will be held in Melbourne Australia, September 30-October 3.
The meeting aims to contribute towards understanding and collective action, in Australia and internationally, to urgently address the climate and social emergencies that we must overcome if humanity and the planet are to not only survive, but thrive.
Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal has prepared the following collections of background reading for the issues that will be discussed at the conference. (And they are also useful guides for people who cannot attend.)
By featured international speakers
- John Bellamy Foster: http://links.org.au/taxonomy/term/580
- Ian Angus: http://links.org.au/taxonomy/term/577
Specific subjects
- Marxism and ecology: http://links.org.au/taxonomy/term/523
- Population: http://links.org.au/taxonomy/term/427
- Climate change: http://links.org.au/taxonomy/term/138
- Green parties: http://links.org.au/taxonomy/term/200
- Food: http://links.org.au/taxonomy/term/100
- Water: http://links.org.au/taxonomy/term/214
- Automobiles and public transport: http://links.org.au/taxonomy/term/371
- Cochabamba & Bolivia: http://links.org.au/taxonomy/term/466
- Copenhagen 2009: http://links.org.au/taxonomy/term/433
- Durban 2011: http://links.org.au/taxonomy/term/518