Defend Truth

Leonie Joubert and Gina Ziervogel

Leonie Joubert is a Cape Town-based science writer whose books, journalism, and podcasting grapple with climate and environmental change, energy policy, cities as development hubs, and why today’s food system leaves many of us hungry, heavy, and sick (the hunger-obesity poverty-paradox. Gina Ziervogel is an associate professor at the Department of Environmental and Geographical Sciences and Research Chair at ACDI, University of Cape Town, where she focuses on climate adaptation, environmental governance and transdisciplinary processes for urban transformation.