Ben Turok Memorial Lecture 2024

Face climate crisis with courage, creativity, compassion

Abstract

The world no longer has the time to indulge in pessimism or denialism as we get ever closer to the climate crisis cliff, and
the urgent task at hand is to revise -- and revitalise -- the thinking of activists, academics and leftists world-wide who have taken on the responsibility of being changemakers in pursuit of a more just global order. This was the challenge thrown out to the civil society community by decades-long human rights and climate justice activist, Dr Kumi Naidoo, who delivered the fourth Ben Turok Memorial Lecture in Cape Town on 9 December 2024 on the anniversary of Turok’s passing in 2019.