Vicky Southworth was a regional councillor at Environment Canterbury for 6 years (2019 to 2022). Prior to this she gained a Master of Water Resource Management from the University of Canterbury and worked as an engineering geologist with a focus on contaminated sites. Vicky will talk about the Nitrate Emergency declaration – what the issue…
“Let us not, however, flatter ourselves overmuch on account of our human victories over nature. For each such victory nature takes its revenge on us. Each victory, it is true, in the first place brings about the results we expected, but in the second and third places it has quite different, unforeseen effects which only…
Climate and Capitalism: A Public Lecture on Climate Change and Capitalism “It seems to be easier for us today to imagine the thoroughgoing deterioration of the earth and of nature than the breakdown of late capitalism.” -Fredric Jameson “Socialists have all too often failed to take ecological issues seriously enough. However, this is not a…