The Strangeness of the Planetary Future By Whitney A. Bauman Wicked problems call for puzzling solutions. Wicked, here, is of course not the slang skater/surfer/stoner complement when something is amazing. Rather, it is a technical Read more…
Celebrating Five Years of Counterpoint: Navigating Knowledge By Whitney A. Bauman and Kocku von Stuckrad If we want to address the major challenges of the 21st century—first and foremost climate disasters, human and other-than-human interdependencies Read more…
The Role of Fictional Thinking in Climate Grief By Tamar Brandsma Climate change is one of the biggest problems of our era. We are facing natural losses at an accelerating pace: extraordinary species are under Read more…
Rosemary Radford Ruether: A Prophet of the Planetary By Whitney A. Bauman At a recent meeting of the American Academy of Religion, there was much sharing of memories about prominent scholars in religious studies who Read more…
On Environmental Grief By Kocku von Stuckrad Last week, yet another devastating report about the ecological state of the planet was published: WWF and Zoological Society of London’s biennial Living Planet Report. It confirms (again) Read more…
The New Arms Race and the Approaching Climate Havoc: A Tipping Point for Humanity By Fabian Scheidler A few days after the Russian attack on Ukraine, a new report by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Read more…
Decolonizing for the Planetary Community: Many Worlds, One Planet By Whitney A. Bauman Sylvia Wynter has argued, I think successfully, that the idea of the human and subsequently what the “Humanities” are, grew out of Read more…
Hiding in Horror: Feeling and Believing Climate Science By Donovan Schaefer We’ve all heard someone accused of “only believing what they want to believe.” It seems so obvious it’s trivial. But looking at it more Read more…
EmPower: Climate Change and Gender Justice By Vera Pokorny Amidst ever louder calls for urgent action to drastically transform our societies and economies in the face of climate change, there is increasing recognition of climate Read more…
The Climate Crisis Through the Eye of the Needle: Ecology, Economics, and Religion A Counterpoint Conversation with Joerg Rieger, Annika Rieger, and Marcia Pally 5 July 2022, 10:00-12:00 CET | Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Berlin and Zoom Read more…
