Editing Clive Hamilton (section)

==Works==
Hamilton has written about the issue of [[Individual and political action on climate change|climate change politics]] over a period of some 15 years.<ref name=km/> His book ''[[Requiem for a Species]]'' ([[Earthscan]] 2010) explores [[climate change denial]] and its implications.  His earlier books, ''[[Scorcher: The Dirty Politics of Climate Change|Scorcher]]'' (2007) and ''Running from the Storm'' (2001), were critical of the Australian Government's efforts, especially in relation to the [[Kyoto Protocol]].<ref>[[Tim Flannery]]. [http://www.theage.com.au/news/book-reviews/scorcher-the-dirty-politics-of-climate-change/2007/05/25/1179601645988.html Scorcher: the dirty politics of climate change] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100119052246/http://www.theage.com.au/news/book-reviews/scorcher-the-dirty-politics-of-climate-change/2007/05/25/1179601645988.html |date=19 January 2010 }} ''The Age'', 25 May 2007.</ref> Hamilton's general view about climate change is that the "world is on a path to a very unpleasant future and it is too late to stop it".<ref name=km>Kelsey Munro. [http://www.smh.com.au/environment/too-late-for-all-but-prayers-20100226-p95h.html Too late for all but prayers] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100514135823/http://www.smh.com.au/environment/too-late-for-all-but-prayers-20100226-p95h.html |date=14 May 2010 }} ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', 27 February 2010.</ref> Hamilton argues that to believe anything else is to deny the climate change truth and engage in wishful thinking.<ref name=sy>Steven Yearley. [http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=411928 Book of the week: Requiem for a Species] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120916221636/http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=411928 |date=16 September 2012 }} ''Times Higher Education'', 3 June 2010.</ref>

Hamilton has written several books relating to [[consumerism]] and [[overconsumption]]. ''[[Growth Fetish]]'' (2003) became an Australian best-seller and suggests that the unthinking pursuit of [[economic growth]] has become a [[Fixation (psychology)|fetish]], which has not led to any real improvements in levels of happiness.<ref>Ross Gittins. [http://www.smh.com.au/business/when-growth-turns-into-a-monster-20080506-2bky.html When growth turns into a monster] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101116033200/http://www.smh.com.au/business/when-growth-turns-into-a-monster-20080506-2bky.html |date=16 November 2010 }} ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', 7 May 2008.</ref> In ''Growth Fetish'', Hamilton advocates the politics of wellbeing over economic growth.<ref name=kn/> In ''[[Affluenza: When Too Much is Never Enough|Affluenza]]'' (2005), Hamilton describes how these themes play out at a personal level, as he explores the shallowness of modern consumer life.<ref name=kn>Kirsty Needham. [http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/A-serious-bout-of-affluenza/2005/05/28/1117129904238.html# A serious bout of affluenza] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100710051338/http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/A-serious-bout-of-affluenza/2005/05/28/1117129904238.html |date=10 July 2010 }}
''The Sydney Morning Herald'', 28 May 2005.</ref> In ''[[What's Left?]]'' (2006) Hamilton comments on topics written about in ''Growth Fetish'' and ''Affluenza''. He argues that there is an emergence of new types of "alienation and exploitation", in the form of ravages of the [[free market]], which have "robbed life of its meaning".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-16200577_ITM|title=When the left is half right|last=Maley|first=Barry|date=1 June 2006|work=Quadrant|access-date=12 November 2008}}</ref> ''[[The Freedom Paradox]]'' (2008) relates to the nature and consequences of advanced [[consumer capitalism]].  In the book Hamilton proposes a system of "post-secular ethics" that will serve as a challenge to the "moral malaise" occasioned by the "freedom of the marketplace".<ref>Richard King. [http://www.smh.com.au/news/entertainment/books/book-reviews/the-freedom-paradox-towards-a-postsecular-ethics/2008/09/26/1222217506198.html The Freedom Paradox: Towards a Post-Secular Ethics] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100724064407/http://www.smh.com.au/news/entertainment/books/book-reviews/the-freedom-paradox-towards-a-postsecular-ethics/2008/09/26/1222217506198.html |date=24 July 2010 }} ''[[The Sydney Morning Herald]]'', 26 September 2008.</ref>

''[[Silencing Dissent|Silencing Dissent: How the Australian Government is Controlling Public Opinion and Stifling Debate]]'', edited with [[Sarah Maddison]] was published in 2007.

In February 2018 Hamilton published the book ''[[Silent Invasion (book)|Silent Invasion: China's influence in Australia]]'' on the increasing involvement of the [[Chinese Communist Party]] in Australian civil society and politics.<ref name="bookreview">{{Cite web|last=Brophy|first=David|author-link=David Brophy (historian)|date=April 2018|title=David Brophy reviews 'Silent Invasion: China's Influence in Australia' by Clive Hamilton|url=https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/current-issue/4663-david-brophy-reviews-silent-invasion-china-s-influence-in-australia-by-clive-hamilton|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180313222345/https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/current-issue/4663-david-brophy-reviews-silent-invasion-china-s-influence-in-australia-by-clive-hamilton|archive-date=13 March 2018|access-date=2018-04-11|website=Australian Book Review|language=en-gb}}</ref>

In June 2020, British businessman and advocate of closer China-UK economic relations Stephen Perry and the [[48 Group Club]] launched a defamation lawsuit in a failed attempt to block the release of Hamilton's ''[[Hidden Hand (book)|Hidden Hand: Exposing How The Chinese Communist Party Is Reshaping The World]]''.<ref>{{Cite news|last1=Fife|first1=Robert|last2=Chase|first2=Steven|date=June 19, 2020|title=Legal challenge halts Canadian, U.S. and U.K. release of book critical of Chinese Communist Party|work=The Globe and Mail|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-legal-challenge-halts-canadian-us-and-uk-release-of-book-critical/|access-date=June 23, 2020}}</ref>