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CLIMATE ACTION SHOWOCTOBER 9th 2023Mark Diesendorf : SUSTAINABLE CIVILISATION As the world’s ecosystem and climate is collapsing around us, due to humanity’s uncontrolled carbon emissions, is a transition to a civilisation that is sustainable, socially just, healthy and less militarised even possible? Associate professor Mark Diesendorf and science journalist Rod Taylor think so, and they have recently published a book about how we will do it: ‘The Path to a Sustainable Civilisation’.In this podcast interview courtesy of journalist Mik Aidt, Mark Diesendorf describes what is wrong with our current political system, and then he makes a coherent argument for how it can be transformed.Diesendorf calls for citizen-based environmental, social justice, public health and peace groups to form alliances in order to challenge the overarching issues of state capture and flawed economic ideology.Former US President Franklin D. Roosevelt once told a delegation: “OK, you have convinced me. Now get out there and make me do