

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Green Dreams: Why Technology Can’t Save the World
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 11 Mar, 2026 at 06:00 pm – Wed, 11 Mar, 2026 at 07:15 pm
- **Event Description**: A special lecture by one of the world’s leading researchers of sustainability on “Green techno-optimism” .About this Event“Green techno-optimism” has become one of defining ideas of the climate era: the belief that innovation, markets, and new technologies can deliver sustainability without forcing hard choices about growth, consumption, or high-energy ways of life. It finds its most powerful expression in Silicon Valley, where contemporary faith in technological salvation is made and circulated. As climate breakdown becomes a new frontier for venture capital and the rhetoric of creative disruption, tech companies have positioned themselves as central agents of climate solutions, driving a rapidly expanding field of green tech, from carbon removal and geoengineering to “green AI.” Focusing on Big Tech in particular, the lecture examines how these firms narrate themselves as climate leaders through net-zero pledges, sustainability reports, and renewable energy claims, even as their growth models, infrastructure, and rising energy demands work against meaningful decarbonization and democratic climate governance. Climate politics are increasingly being steered by the story we tell about technology. This lecture asks why that story is so persuasive, how it reshapes what can be imagined, demanded, and defended as a climate future, and how it sidelines other ways of naming the climate crisis and acting to address it.About our SpeakerImre Szeman is the inaugural Director of the Institute for Environment, Conservation and Sustainability and Professor of Human Geography at the University of Toronto Scarborough, where he has taught since 2022. He was previously University Research Chair of Environmental Communication at the University of Waterloo (2017-2022), Canada Research Chair of Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta (2009-2016) and Senator William McMaster Chair in Globalization and Cultural Studies at McMaster University (2004-2009). A cultural theorist distinguished for his contributions to the interdisciplinary field of energy and environmental studies known as “energy humanities,” Szeman is also a key figure in the development of cultural studies in Canada and for research on globalization and culture. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/camperdown/green-dreams-why-technology-can’t-save-the-world/100001980532131921
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## Event venue details

- **city**: Camperdown
- **state**: NS
- **country**: Australia
- **location**: Chau Chak Wing Museum
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- **long**: 151.190016
- **full address**: Chau Chak Wing Museum, University Place, Camperdown, Australia

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Wed, 11 Mar, 2026 at 06:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Chau Chak Wing Museum, University Place, Camperdown, Australia
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- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Chau Chak Wing Museum
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** Art, Business, Theatre
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