About this Event
Julia Shaw, author of Making Evil, joins us for a discussion of ecological criminals and the heroes resisting them in this launch event for her latest book, Green Crime!
Julia will deliver a talk on the horrors of green crime from oil spills and deforestation to the murders commissioned to cover them up, as well as the heroes fighting to protect the world from despoliation, before taking questions from the audience and signing copies of her book.
Green Crime
Traffickers. Hit men. Outlaws. Thieves . . .Our planet is a crime scene - but we can catch the killers?Enter a world where people are murdered, ecosystems are destroyed, organised criminals terrorise communities and corporate gangsters operate outside the law. And, closely following their every move, are teams of secret agents, vigilantes and scientists who are fighting for our planet's future.Using insider sources and her expertise as a criminal psychologist, Dr Julia Shaw takes us deep into some of the worst environmental crimes of our time. She reconstructs the minds of the perpetrators in cases like the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the Dieselgate emissions scandal, and the Shuidong wildlife crime syndicate. From the Amazon forest to South African gold mines she follows the impact of green crimes right to our doorsteps, and meticulously profiles the work of the heroes bringing these criminals to justice.Dr Shaw asks: how do the Earth's killers think? What makes their crimes so deadly? And how can we stop them from stealing our future?Green Crime is the most far-reaching M**der mystery ever told.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Waterstones, 174-176 Argyle Street, Glasgow, United Kingdom
GBP 5.00 to GBP 22.00
