After surveying course scientific reports on climatic and biodiversity loss, the course offers a critical examination of accounts in contemporary political and social theory of the origins and interpretations of, and responses to, the crises. Questions such as the following will be addressed: Is sustainability compatible with poverty eradication? How can policies respond to environmental crises without increasing global inequality and injustice? Is capitalism the problem? Is it possible and desirable to decouple economic growth from economic activity that creates environmental damage? Should half of nature be saved from human activity? Must we re-think the nature of politics? Must we re-think our relationship to the rest of the natural world?
The language of the lecture will be English and the assignments, which are required for the Teilnahmeschein, must be written in English.
- Trainer/in: Darrel Moellendorf