Dr Jo Orsatti is a Lecturer in the Discipline of Work and Organisational Studies with an interdisciplinary background in work studies, technology and social theory. Jo’s doctoral thesis investigated the employment relationship, voices and citizenship surrounding a variety of social and environmental concerns, such as climate change, innovation and diversity via enterprise social media. Jo is continuing her work on the crucial question of the role employees, work and organisations can play in improving approaches to social and environmental justice.
Net zero now – it’s the economy AND the planet
In Australia, as elsewhere, the climate wars have focused on the climate versus jobs dichotomy. Yet while Australia remains highly dependent on fossil fuel extraction for its national economic prosperity it has also become increasingly unequal in its distribution of that wealth.