A novel can't stop global warming. But some stories stick with us, possibly affecting the way we think about the world, and in turn affecting the way we live in the world.
Category: Climate change & political action
Clémence Goyens / Scientific researcher
Every day Earth Observation satellites provide us with images of the state/health of the Earth surface (...)
Aurore Degré / Professor
It's now urgent to protect water and soil ressources. The action we take at personnal level are insufficient but absolutely necessary.
Farid DAHDOUH-GUEBAS / Professor
Do we really need a recurrent disaster with immense human death toll to acknowledge the ecosystem goods and services of mangrove forests and protect them ?
Morgane Dendoncker / Phd candidate
We should all act now and together
Hans De Boeck / Researcher
I conduct research on the impacts climate change has on ecosystems, also in conjunction with other global changes – such as biodiversity loss. When I’m at conferences, it is easy (...)
Isa Schön / Senior researcher and guest professor
It takes millions of years for new species to evolve; fast extinction due to global warm will give animals and plants no time to adapt. We need to act now!
Michel Crucifix / Professor and Research Scientist
My main concern is with my area of expertise. Climate change is a concern, not so much because it will be warmer in Belgium, but because it will be an additional destabilizing (...)
David Lombard / PhD student-researcher
Although the Anthropocene and climate change are widely known as scientific issues, they are also significant cultural problems. In literary criticism and ecocriticism, the main (...)
Stef Craps / Professor of English Literature
As a literary scholar who studies climate change fiction, I believe that focusing on individual lifestyle choices risks distracting from the policy debates we should be having.