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Professor Richard Hil and Dr Jean Renouf are launching Unspeakable: Facing up to the climate catastrophe and its consequences in Australia on Wednesday, 26 August. Photo supplied

Unspeakable: Facing up to the climate catastrophe and its consequences in Australia by authors Professor Richard Hil and Dr Jean Renouf, both of whom live and work in the Northern Rivers, launches on Wednesday, 26 August at The Regent Cinema, Murwillumbah from 5pm.

Hil and Renouf will be in conversation with regenerative futures practitioner Carmen Stewart of Imagine Northern Rivers. The community resilience charity Dr Renouf founded in 2019 will share Plan C’s new three-year strategy and explore how its community-led approach to resilience connects with the themes of the book.

‘We wrote this book a few kilometres from where we will launch it, in a region that has already lived through what much of the country still imagines as a future event,’ said Renouf. ‘The 2022 floods showed us how quickly the systems we rely on can be overwhelmed, and they showed us how much capacity sits in ordinary neighbourhoods when people decide to act together. Launching at home first felt right, because this community taught us a lot of what the book discusses.’

Former Fire and Rescue NSW Commissioner Greg Mullins AO calls Unspeakable ‘a must read’ that ‘provides hope rather than despair and throws us a lifeline.’

Mel Bloor, founder and president of Resilient Uki, said, ‘for an exhausted community leader, this book has both fanned my activist flame and reminded me of the deep still pool that I can be, for both myself and my community.’

Entry $5 at the door with the discussion from 6pm to 7.30pm.



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