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 (...)
Hans De Boeck / Researcher
Category: Climate change & political action
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 (...)
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 (...)
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!
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.
Violaine Wathelet / PhD student in sociology
Travelling by bicycle, buying products in cooperative supermarkets, marching for climate... All this is a good thing but...
Xavier Desmit / Researcher
Global threats require global, political actions. Individual actions are also important to support political initiatives. Adapting to change provides freedom, joy and awareness.
Josefine Vanhille / Researcher
Besides an ecological problem, I see climate change also as a (gigantic) social question.
Thomas Merckx / Postdoctoral researcher
Climate action not only need to be social but green too
Kristof Van Assche / Professor in Philosophy of Law
In order to recognise that climate change is a problem of individual responsibility, our traditional concepts regarding moral responsibility may need to be revised or expanded.