Bob Carr on Orwell's Dangers of Political Language
Description:Through personal references to great works of literature, the lecture will look at the precarious notion of human decency across a number of themes.These will include an examination of the literature about global warming - the climate change deniers vs the scientific rationalists; 20th Century totalitarianism and the human instinct for warmongering; Primo Levi, Alexander Solzhenitsyn and the(2:29)