Hans Baer is Principal Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne. He has published on a wide array of research topics, including Mormonism, African-American religion, socio-political life in East Germany, critical health anthropology, medical pluralism, the critical anthropology of climate change, and Australian climate politics. His recent books include Global Warming and the Political Ecology of Health (with Merrill Singer), Global Capitalism and Climate Change, Climate Politics and the Climate Movement in Australia, The Anthropology of Climate Change (with Merrill Singer), and Democratic Eco-Socialism as a Real Utopia.