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The Social Causes and Solutions to the Climate Crisis
Thursday 6 October – 16:00 – 17:00 CEST.
Abstract
This talk discusses some of the social causes of climate change and what we can do to address them. It looks at how our current economic system id driving the climate crisis; why our economic and political systems are failing to address it; and what we need to do to change that.
Speaker
Paul Raekstad is an Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam, working on radical political theory connected to social movements. They work broadly on radical political theory connected to social movements.
Agenda
2022
- January 27 | Charlie Gardner | From Publications to Public Actions: The Role of Scientists in a Planetary Emergency
- May 9 | Simon Portegies Zwart | The Ecological Impact of High-performance Computing in Science
- June 9 | Joyeeta Gupta | Climate Change, Planetary Boundaries and the Need for an Environmentally Just Approach
- October 6 | Paul Raekstad | The Social Science behind Civil Disobedience
2021
- May 6 | Paul Behrens | Futures from the Frontiers of Climate Science
- June 17 | Jaap van der Stel | Klimaatcrisis vergt aandacht voor onze mentale gezondheid
- September 16 | Christel van Eck | Climate Communication: from Awareness to Action
- October 21 | Frank Biermann | Climate Engineering: Our Way Out of the Climate Crisis?
- November 18 | Maartje Janse | Climate activism – A historical perspective
- December 16 | Matthijs Schouten | Who do we think we are? A new perspective on humans and the natural world.
About ‘Future Scientists’
By now, most people are aware of the seriousness of climate change and the ecological crisis (e.g., see this 2019 EU Survey). However, awareness by itself may not lead to behavioral change, let alone system and cultural change.
In the Future Scientists webinar series, we explore how to go forward in this decisive decade. As scholars and scientists, what is our role in contributing towards the “rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society” (IPCC) required to stay below 1,5 °C of warming? What system or cultural changes need to be discussed more widely, and how to best communicate that? Lastly, taking a more introspective view, how do we cope with emotions coming from the barrage of bad news regarding the state of our planet?
