Ian Lowe
Autore di A Big Fix: Radical Solutions for Australia's Environmental Crisis
Sull'Autore
Opere di Ian Lowe
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Australia
- Attività lavorative
- professor
- Organizzazioni
- Australian Conservation Foundation
Griffith University - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Order of Australia (Officer, 2001)
Utenti
Recensioni
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 17
- Utenti
- 116
- Popolarità
- #169,721
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 3
- ISBN
- 47
Back in the late 1980s, I first encountered Ian Lowe at a conference under the aegis of polymath, public intellectual and then Science Minister Barry Jones. Lowe was Director of the (now defunct) Commission for the Future in 1988 and the conference was rich in stimulating ideas, which guided my work in policy development in all the schools I worked in. I often quoted a key take-away which was that we were educating students for jobs that didn't yet exist, and that is as true today as it was in 1988.
And even back then Lowe was alert to the prospect of environmental crisis...
For readers who've been paying attention, much of Australia on the Brink will be familiar. Most of us know what our serious problems are:
The question is, are we — individually and collectively — doing anything about them?
To read the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2023/09/02/australia-on-the-brink-avoiding-environmenta...… (altro)