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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Environment
Graham Readfearn

What does a Jordan Peterson conference say about the future of climate change? Apparently we’re headed towards ‘human flourishing’

Jordan Peterson
Jordan Peterson. The Alliance for Responsible Citizenship conference hosted talks on climate change in central London from 30 October to 1 November. Photograph: Attila Kisbenedek/AFP/Getty Images

Rightwing figures from around the world descended on London last week for the inaugural conference of the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) – a sort of quasi-thinktank fronted by the controversial Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson.

Peterson pleaded with the audience at London’s O2 Arena to “tilt the world towards heaven and away from hell”, which, for many of the event’s main speakers, definitely did not mean worrying much at all about the climate crisis.

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