Studium Generale | How We Sold Our Future

For decades we have known about the dangers of global warming. Nevertheless, greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase. How can we explain our failure to take the necessary measures to stop climate change? In How We Sold Our Future: The Failure to Fight Climate Change, sociologist Jens Beckert delves into the connections between capitalist structures and our failure to address the climate crisis. How do we stop selling our future for the next quarterly figures, the upcoming election result and today's pleasure?

In a short lecture Jens Beckert will share the key elements of this book, followed by a panel discussion with Marijke Leliveld and Lukas Linsi, moderated by Michael Schwan. These three academics take part in the Centre Philosophy, Politics and Economics. Members at the centre collaborate on various research programmes that aim to address some of the most urgent questions of our world, such as climate change, fiscal regulation, social and political trust, political participation and sustainable development.