Clive Hamilton

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Clive Charles Hamilton AM (born March 12, 1953 ) is an Australian philosopher and professor of general ethics at the Center for Applied Philosophy and Ethics (CAPPE). As such, he is Vice- Chancellor in General Ethics at Charles Sturt University .

Career

Hamilton holds a Bachelor of Arts (BA) from the Australian National University and a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc. Honors) from the University of Sydney . In 1984 he received his PhD from the Institute for Development Studies at the University of Sussex . In 1993 he founded the Australia Institute, a progressive think tank, and led the institute as director until 2008. In addition, Hamilton has held positions as visiting scholar at Yale University , Oxford University, Sydney University, Australian National University, University of Technology, Sydney and Cambridge University .

Hamilton is known as an intellectual who has participated in numerous political debates and public discourses. On June 8, 2009, he was awarded the rank of Order of Australia Member (AM) for “Achievements in debate and policy development, particularly in the areas of global warming, sustainability and social developments”.

Publications and theses

Hamilton has been writing on the subject of global warming for over 15 years . His book Requiem for a Species , published by Earthscan in 2010, deals with the political controversy surrounding climate change , the causes and backgrounds of the denial of global warming and the resulting consequences. Hamilton's earlier books Scorcher (2007) and Running from the Storm (2001) criticize the conservative Howard government's refusal of climate policy , particularly with regard to the Kyoto Protocol . In Hamilton's view, the world is facing an uncomfortable future in the face of global warming, and it seems hopeless to stop it. For Hamilton, denying man-made climate change and its consequences borders on wishful thinking. He sees the roots of “climate change denial”. a. in US conservatism , which after the end of the Cold War was looking for new enemy images and also turned against climate research.

Hamilton also complains that climate researchers are increasingly becoming victims of intimidation. He points to anonymous threats and masses of hate mail that scientists have received in the course of the climate controversy. According to Hamilton, the flood of e-mails with insulting and threatening content has the characteristics of an orchestrated campaign by groups of climate deniers.

Clive Hamilton also wrote several books on the subject of consumerism and overconsumption. The Freedom Paradox (2008) addresses the idiosyncrasies and consequences of advanced consumer capitalism. In this book, Hamilton proposes a system of "post-world ethics" in response to "moral discomfort" for which he sees socio-economic causes.

  • Growth Fetish (2003) became an Australian bestseller. A fundamental thesis of the book is that the thoughtless pursuit of economic growth has become a fetish that has resulted in no real improvement. In Growth Fetish , he advocates the primacy of a politics of wellbeing over one of economic growth.
  • Affluenza , published in 2005 with Richard Denniss, describes how consumerist attitudes influence behavior at the personal level, exploring the superficiality of modern consumer life.
  • In What's Left? (2006) comments on the main theses he put forward in Growth Fetish and Affluenza . He explains why many new forms of alienation and exploitation have emerged. Life is robbed of its importance through economic upheavals.
  • Silencing Dissent: How the Australian Government Is Controlling Public Opinion and Stifling Debate was published in 2007 and developed with Sarah Maddison.
  • The Australian Parliament announced in February 2018 that it would publish the controversial book Silent Invasion: How China Is Turning Australia into a Puppet State , which deals with the influence of the Chinese Communist Party on Australia, after two major Australian publishers rejected it had.

politics

Hamilton during the 2009 Higgins election campaign

In 2009, Hamilton was a candidate for the Australian Greens in a House by-election in the Higgins constituency. He competed against nine other candidates in the election campaign and came in second place after counting the votes with 32.4% of the first preference votes and 39.8% of the second preferences. The Australian Labor Party had not submitted a candidate.

Hamilton has supported plans by the former Australian Labor government to use internet filters to combat child pornography and terrorism.

Publications

  • Capitalist Industrialization in Korea (1986)
  • The Economic Dynamics of Australian Industry (1992)
  • The Mystic Economist (1994)
  • Human Economy: Ideas for an Ecologically Sustainable Future (1997)
  • The ESD Process: Evaluating a Policy Experiment (1998)
  • Running from the Storm: The Development of Climate Change Policy in Australia (2001)
  • Growth Fetish (2003)
  • Affluenza: When Too Much is Never Enough (2005)
  • What's Left? The Death of Social Democracy (2006)
  • Scorcher: The Dirty Politics of Climate Change (2007)
  • Silencing Dissent: How the Australian Government Is Controlling Public Opinion and Stifling Debate (2007)
  • The Freedom Paradox: Towards a Post-Secular Ethic (2008)
  • Requiem For A Species: Why We Resist The Truth About Climate Change (2010)
  • Earthmasters: Playing God with the climate (2013)
  • What Do We Want ?: The Story of Protest in Australia, National Library of Australia (2016)
  • Defiant Earth: The Fate of Humans in the Anthropocene, Polity (2017)
  • Silent Invasion: China's influence in Australia, Hardie Grant Books (2018)
  • With Mareike Ohlberg : Hidden Hand: Exposing how the Chinese Communist Party is reshaping the world (2020), German title: Die Lautlose Eroberung. How China is infiltrating western democracies and reorganizing the world

See also

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Clive Hamilton . Center for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics. Archived from the original on July 6, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 10, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cappe.edu.au
  2. ↑ CSU EXPERTS . Charles Sturt University . Archived from the original on March 3, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 9, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / news.csu.edu.au
  3. ↑ Clive Hamilton: Brief CV ( Memento of the original from July 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Center for Applied Philosophy and General Ethics  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cappe.edu.au
  4. ↑ a b Clive Hamilton: Brief CV (PDF; 154 kB) Center for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics. Archived from the original on July 6, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 10, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cappe.edu.au
  5. ↑ Let's have a debate, Aunty . In: The Australian . March 20, 2010. In it: well known climate change advocate Clive Hamilton
  6. ↑ Lucinda Schmidt: Profile: Clive Hamilton . In: The Age , July 30, 2008
  7. ↑ It's an Honor
  8. ↑ a b Kelsey Munro: Too late for all but prayers . In: The Sydney Morning Herald . February 27, 2010.
  9. ↑ Clive Hamilton: Requiem for a Species: Why We Resist the Truth about Climate Change. Earthscan, 2010
  10. ↑ Tim Flannery : Scorcher: the dirty politics of climate change . In: The Age . May 25, 2007.
  11. ↑ Steven Yearley: Book of the week: Requiem for a Species . In: Times Higher Education , June 3, 2010
  12. ↑ Clive Hamilton: Requiem for a Species: Why We Resist the Truth about Climate Change. Earthscan, 2010, p. 98 ff.
  13. ↑ Clive Hamilton: Bullying, lies and the rise of right-wing climate denial ( Memento of the original from November 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.abc.net.au archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: ABC Online , February 22, 2010
  14. ↑ Clive Hamilton: Who is orchestrating the cyber-bullying? ( Memento of the original from October 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.abc.net.au archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: ABC Online , February 23, 2010
  15. ^ Richard King: The Freedom Paradox: Towards a Post-Secular Ethics . In: The Sydney Morning Herald . September 26, 2008.
  16. ↑ Ross Gittins: When growth turns into a monster . In: The Sydney Morning Herald, May 7, 2008
  17. ↑ a b Kirsty Needham: A serious bout of affluenza . In: The Sydney Morning Herald . May 28, 2005.
  18. ↑ Parliament to publish Chinese spying book, “Silent Invasion” , macrobusiness.com.au, February 6, 2018
  19. ^ Clive Hamilton to contest Higgins for Greens . In: ABC News , October 23, 2009
  20. ↑ Meraiah Foley: Proposed Web Filter Criticized in Australia . In: New York Times , December 11, 2008
  21. ↑ Clive Hamilton: Web doesn't belong to net libertarians . In: The Australian . February 16, 2009.
personal data
SURNAME Hamilton, Clive
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hamilton, Charles Clive
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian economist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1953