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and the Tooth Fairy Have in Common? A Reality Check on Our Self-Delusions</span></i></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:rgb(33,33,33)"></span></b></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:rgb(33,33,33)">Mike
Joy, Victoria University, Wellington</span></p>

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6^th<span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span>August, 12:00pm
NZST</span></p>

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Click to follow link." style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><span style="color:rgb(149,79,114)">https://massey.zoom.us/j/87673899499</span></a></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:rgb(33,33,33)">Mike
Joy is one of Aotearoa’s best-known environmentalists. Mike is currently a
Senior Research Fellow in the School of Geography and Earth Sciences at
Victoria University Wellington. Mike was a late starter in academia, first
attending university in his early thirties to gain his BSc, MSc and PhD in
Ecology from Massey University. He began lecturing there in ecology and
environmental science in 2003. After seeing first-hand the decline in
freshwater health in New Zealand, he became an outspoken advocate for
environmental protection.<br>
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Mike has received a number of awards for this work, including an Ecology in
Action award from the NZ Ecological Society (2009), an Old Blue from Forest and
Bird (2011), a Tertiary Education Union Award of Excellence for Academic
Freedom and contribution to Public Education (2013), the Royal Society of New
Zealand Charles Fleming Award for protection of the New Zealand environment
(triennial, 2013), the Morgan Foundation inaugural River Voice Award (2015),
the inaugural New Zealand Universities Critic and Conscience award (biennial,
2016) a semi-finalist for the 2018 Kiwibank New Zealander of the year and was
awarded the Callaghan Medal from the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2024. He
has been an Associate Editor of Marine and Freshwater Research Journal (CSIRO;
Australia) since 2015, associate editor for the Springer Journal - Biodiversity
and Conservation since 2019 and an Editorial Panel Member for Transylvanian
Review of Systematical and Ecological Research since 2010.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:rgb(33,33,33)">2025 marks ten years of Massey’s Political Ecology Research Centre
(PERC)! We are celebrating the occasion by holding a seminar series based on
the theme of ‘Environmental Futures’. Across a diverse range of speakers, we
will be reflecting on the developments and conversations that have followed on
from <a href="https://apc01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fperc.ac.nz%2Fwordpress%2Fonline-conference-archive%2F&data=05%7C02%7CS.A.Taffel%40massey.ac.nz%7C9a71caae8fb446d3736308ddcee1bd5c%7C388728e1bbd0437898dcf8682e644300%7C0%7C0%7C638894191177509021%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=0iXH55SlB7DRFBXn5qCooRVZZNyAfo8YtMuRD2wTqu8%3D&reserved=0" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">PERC
events</a> and looking toward the future. To see all of the speakers in this
series,<span class="gmail-apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://apc01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fperc.ac.nz%2Fwordpress%2Fenvironmental-futures-seminar-series%2F&data=05%7C02%7CS.A.Taffel%40massey.ac.nz%7C9a71caae8fb446d3736308ddcee1bd5c%7C388728e1bbd0437898dcf8682e644300%7C0%7C0%7C638894191177524626%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=9rEhAeDzodVWDK1gdN9zbHtmoJl0yoioYFBYcYHTy%2BQ%3D&reserved=0" title="Original URL:
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mihi nui,</span></p>

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and Alice</span> Beban<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33)"> (PERC co-directors)</span></span></p>

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