Defiance: A Conversation On Conservation with Bob Brown : The Deep North Festival

Presented by Bookoccino Bookstore.
Doors: 12:30pm for 1pm start.

Environmental Activist Bob Brown sits down with Pulitzer Prize winning writer Geraldine Brooks, to discuss his life in environmental activism. 

‘A powerful reminder that the arc of the moral universe bends towards justice only if brave people make the effort to bend it.’ —Geraldine Brooks

For half a century, Bob Brown has been standing up to the powerful interests who would put profit before planet.

In his new book Defiance, he draws on this experience to inspire a new generation of individual and collective action. He reflects on the people and places that have shaped him, celebrates the irreplaceable beauty and value of nature and shares what motivates him to keep fighting. He considers the challenges facing nature’s defenders – hostile corporate lobbyists, vilification in the press, the powerful pull of consumerism – and shows how courage, persistence and community can defeat them all.

Told with Brown’s trademark warmth and humour, these stories will galvanise, uplift and inspire.

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