[Salon] Julia Shaw: Green Crime

When
14/11/2025
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Location
Full Circle House, 89 Ch. de Vleurgat, 1050 Ixelles

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GREEN CRIME

Inside the Minds of the People Destroying the Planet, and How to Stop Them

A salon with Julia Shaw

Ideas / Salon | Fri 14th Nov | 6.30-8.30 pm

*Doors open at 6.30pm. The speaker will start at 7pm.

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How do the Earth's killers think? What makes their crimes so deadly? And how can we stop them from stealing our future? Psychologist Julia Shaw is a master at looking at the why human beings do the (evil) things they do. From oil spills to illegal deforestation, she exposes the disturbing underbelly of environmental crime whilst also shining a light on the heroes attempting to thwart its progress.

Using insider sources and her expertise as a criminal psychologist, Julia Shaw takes us deep into some of the worst environmental crimes of our time (think Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the Dieselgate emissions scandal, or the Shuidong wildlife crime syndicate).

Ecosystems are destroyed, people are murdered, 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. Dr Shaw reconstructs the minds of the perpetrators and, 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.

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Julia Shaw is a German-Canadian criminal psychologist at University College London, bestselling author, and regular presenter of TV and audio shows. As a scientist, she specialises in false memory, memory hacking, investigative interviewing, and understanding the criminal mind, as well as identity in the age of social media and digital ethics. She is also a best-selling writer translated into twenty languages, author of four books. She strives to to form more tolerant, respectful and inclusive working places and environments. In 2017 Julia co-founded the startup Spot which uses artificial intelligence and memory science to help individuals document and report inappropriate workplace behaviour. In 2024 she released two series on BBC Radio 4. Experts on Trial, about the secret world of expert witnesses, and The Human Subject, co-hosted by Dr Adam Rutherford, about the dark history of modern medicine. Between 2020 and 2024 she wrote and hosted the award-winning BBC Sounds podcast Bad People.She has also been a presenter for German television.

GOOD READS

Green Crime, Inside the Minds of the People Destroying the Planet, and How to Stop Them (2025); Bi, The Hidden Culture, History and Science of Bisexuality (2022); Making Evil, The Science Behind Humanity's Dark Side (2020); The Memory Illusion, Remembering, Forgetting and the Science of False Memory (2016).

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