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CSS Lecture Series 2021 "After Sustainability. What if we stopped pretending?"

The aim of the Lecture Series is to disorient and disenchant current ecological debates and go beyond techno- and marketfixes or highly uncertain technological gambles. Instead, we will point dilemmas and contradictions in discussions on decarbonisation and green growth, and center instead on the day-to-day practices of unsustainability in economic policies, infrastructure planning, consumption patterns and global financial markets. On this basis, we wish to engage a discussion on how to re-build and reassemble a horizon for contemporary ecological thinking. Starting from an honest assessment of the current situation and our ecological entanglements, what would a possible way forward look like? How can ecological thinking be at the same time critical and empowering, to support a politics of transformation that is not rooted in magical thinking?

first slide of presentation of nigel clark, lecture titled earthly multitudes and the challenge of a self-differentiating planet

Nigel Clark: "Earthly Multitudes and the Challenge of a Self-Differentiating Planet", 30th June 2021

first slide of presentation of Frank Biermann, lecture titled "From Environmental Policy to Earth System Governance?"

Frank Biermann: "From Environmental Policy to Earth System Governance?", 6th July 2021