What does a Jordan Peterson conference say about the future of climate change? Apparently we’re headed towards ‘human flourishing’

Attendees of the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship were treated to a grab-bag of cherrypicked talking points from some speakers that ignored the risks of climate change

• Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates
• Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast

Rightwing figures from around the world descended on London last week for the inaugural conference of the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) - a sort of quasi-thinktank fronted by the controversial Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson.

Peterson pleaded with the audience at London's O2 Arena to tilt the world towards heaven and away from hell", which, for many of the event's main speakers, definitely did not mean worrying much at all about the climate crisis.