The Carbon Club
How a network of influential climate sceptics, politicians and business leaders fought to control Australia's climate policy
$36.34
- Paperback
456 pages
- Release Date
1 September 2020
Summary
As the climate crisis threatens more extreme bushfire seasons, droughts and floods, many Australians are demanding their leaders answer the question: ‘Why didn’t you do something?’
The Carbon Club reveals the truth behind Australia’s two decades of climate inaction. It’s the story of how a loose confederation of influential climate-science sceptics, politicians and business leaders sought to control Australia’s response to the climate crisis. They shared a fear that dealing w…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781760875992 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1760875996 |
| Author: | Marian Wilkinson |
| Publisher: | Allen & Unwin |
| Imprint: | Allen & Unwin |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 456 |
| Release Date: | 1 September 2020 |
| Weight: | 558g |
| Dimensions: | 46mm x 286mm x 156mm |
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About The Author
Marian Wilkinson
Marian Wilkinson is a multi-award-winning journalist with a career that has spanned radio, television and print.
She has covered politics, national security, refugee issues and climate change as well as serving as a foreign correspondent in Washington, DC for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. She was a deputy editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, executive producer of the ABC’s Four Corners program and a senior reporter with Four Corners.
As environment editor for the Sydney Morning Herald, she reported on the rapid melt of Arctic sea ice for a joint Four Corners - Sydney Morning Herald production that won a Walkley Award for journalism and the Australian Museum’s Eureka prize for environmental journalism. She also covered the UN climate conferences in Bali and Copenhagen.
As a member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), she reported on the Panama Papers and the Paradise Papers for Four Corners.
She has written several books, including the political biography The Fixer, on former Labor powerbroker Graham Richardson, and Dark Victory, on Australia’s response to asylum seekers, which she co-authored with David Marr.
In 2018 she was inducted into the Australian Media Hall of Fame.
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