Name: Climate Change - finding a sustainable future in Scotland's past.
Start: 2025-11-03T19:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-11-03T20:30:00+00:00
Location: Waterstones

Come and join us at the Glasgow Café Scientifique for a talk & discussion about Scotland’s relationship with climate change.
About this Event

Monday 3rd November - Café Sci:

7-8:30pm

Upstairs in the Bistro/Event Space.

Come and join us at the Glasgow Café Scientifique for a talk & discussion about Scotland’s relationship with climate change and going ‘carbon neutral’. All welcome!

Scotland is a world leader in renewable energy but, behind the headlines and good news stories, what is actually going on? And where do ordinary people fit in to the debate? In this talk, journalist and sociologist Dominic Hinde blends his experience as an international news journalist and climate specialist with his academic work on the public communication of climate change and energy. Based on his new book Drifting North, written as a road trip through the Scottish landscape after the Glasgow COP summit and the Covid pandemic, he brings real people into the story of environmental and social change, from the beginnings of the carbon economy in Scotland into the future. Through visits to Shetland and Orkney, offshore oil platforms, nuclear reactors and wind farms, reforestation projects and urban sustainability initiatives, Dominic weaves together the personal, the national and an international to ask key questions, such as, “What are the driving forces behind the successes and failures of carbon neutrality?”, “Why is understand ‘energy’ essential to tackling climate change?”, and, “Why is it still so hard to mobilise mass action on climate?”

Dominic Hinde is a writer, journalist and academic at the University of Glasgow. He spent much of his twenties working as a Northern Europe correspondent and latterly an environment specialist for Scottish, UK and US news media, as well as writing for outlets in Germany and Sweden and working for Nordic radio and television. Since 2021, he’s been Lecturer in Sociology of Media at Glasgow, where he researches climate narratives, and continues to write for magazines such as the New Humanist and New Statesman, as well as being a contributor to Good Morning Scotland and producing independent radio documentary.