Naomi Oreskes: How climate change breaks the promise of progress

Tickets and registration at ABF Stockholm or at Tickster

We are happy to announce that Naomi Oreskes, world renowned thinker who established the consensus on human-induced climate change and bestselling author of books including The Merchants of Doubt, and The Big Myth, will visit Stockholm April 24 for an evening event at ABF Huset, Stockholm.

Tickets  include food and drinks at a mingle afterwards. Proceeds support ABF's activities promoting lifelong learning, democracy, and equality.

Her most recent book, The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market, details how American business organizations created a deep, near-spiritual faith in the idea of free markets, helping them oppose environmental and workers regulations for nearly a century. Merchants of Doubt (also made into a documentary film),revealed how corporate lobbying spread mistrust in climate change using the same techniques as the tobacco lobby, which long claimed smoking was safe and postponed regulation.

In this talk she will present new work that shows how, taken into its full scientific account, climate change breaks the historical promise of continued progress on which Western societies have built their political and economic institutions. She will outline how futuristic framings of solutions – and faith in techno-fixes – allow us to avoid looking the role of the powerful in the dangerous deferral of climate action.

Naomi Oreskes is Henry Charles Lea Professor of the History of Science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University. A world-renowned earth scientist, historian and public speaker, she is a leading voice on the role of science in society, the implications of anthropogenic climate change, and the role of disinformation in blocking climate action.

The event is part of a new series of public events called Changing Earth, that brings internationally leading voices to Stockholm to explore how human societies altered the conditions of the Earth System and what it means to inhabit this new world that we are facing. The series is organised by the Centre for Anthropocene History and the KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory at KTH Royal Institute for Technology, in collaboration with ABF and Arena.

Tickets and registration at ABF Stockholm or at Tickster
Location: ABF-Huset, Sveavägen 41, Stockholm
Time: 18.00-19:30 then mingle with drinks & food