Catégorie : Climate change & political action

I'm working on adressing climate change from the fundamental understanding of global forest ecology. I study the impact of climate change on the global state of forests (carbon (...)

Travelling by bicycle, buying products in cooperative supermarkets, marching for climate... All this is a good thing but...

I hope that #Wechangeforlife will incentive many others so that we create a society where we no longer talk about the sustainable option, but the standard one.

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.

Climate changes put us in a difficult situation. By our actions, we can adopt a necessary environmentally-friendly behavior. However, larger societal changes are also needed.

Biodiversity, climate and human well-being go hand in hand but are deteriorating. We, politician and citizens, need to act urgently in a holistic and realistic way.

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.

Climate action should not only be taken top-down (policy) but also bottom-up. Within this testimony I give an overview of my personnel actions to live in a more sustainable way.

I made changes in my daily life. I still feel powerless to fight climate change. Stopping lobbies and populism's influence on politicians is the key to the ecological transition.