Climate Action: How Far Are You Willing to Go?

Dangerous Dinner

Hosted by Dr Ingmar Wahlqvist & Deborah Remfry

The climate emergency is no longer a distant threat. It’s Lismore under water (again), Mallacoota cut off by flames, the South Australian coast succumbing to a vast, deadly algal bloom, heat records broken in our cities year after year. It's cancelled insurance policies, spiralling food prices, and ecosystems collapsing in real time. And yet we carry on as though someone else will fix it, not just an inconvenient truth, but a deeply uncomfortable one.

This dinner isn’t about policy theory. It’s about personal reckoning. How far are you willing to go to stop the worst from unfolding? What are you prepared to sacrifice - comfort, convenience, consumption - before you act?

What happens if we do nothing? Or not enough? Are we willing to admit what we’re allowing to happen through our own inaction?

Does local action matter if global cooperation is failing? Or is it precisely the time to start small but amplify our impact, like 25 million Greta Thunbergs?

Alternatively, are you resigned to a drastically warming world, believing that the die is cast, and there’s nothing meaningful to be done?

Come ready to challenge the idea that someone else, somewhere else, will save us. The climate emergency is already here. The real question now is: what will you do about it?

Join us for an unflinching conversation about the climate emergency - and your role in it.

Dangerous Dinners give you the opportunity to fearlessly discuss contemporary, challenging and interesting ideas, themes and points of view.

In a relaxed, informal dining environment, we draw on the diverse expertise of our members, sharing their ideas and experiences on complex or controversial topics; to learn from others, challenge assumptions, spark new ideas or point the way for potential actions.

Dangerous because the topics may be difficult to discuss, ask the silent questions, challenge thinking, unpack pressing issues, test emerging trends. Safe because we respect others’ views, it is polite not offensive, under Chatham House rule and listening with the intent to learn.

On a regular basis, you will be able to join your fellow Melbourne Forum members for a robust discussion on a range of themes in dynamic company and over a light meal. The focus is on ‘food for thought’ with shared conversations and shared platters as part of the collegiality.