"Special Feature": Quarterly Roundup: Surviving the Climate Crisis

The climate crisis is here; its impacts are tangible. But surviving heat waves and hurricanes doesn’t mean we get through the crisis safe. What we need are systemic changes to the way we live and think. If science tells us about the climate crisis and its consequences, the humanities tell us how to navigate the crisis through systems’ changes. So, in this episode, we stitch together our conversations with five experts from various fields of the humanities. We speak about moral duties and the ‘collective’ nature of the climate problem, the trap of fossil capitalism, a historic litigation holding a corporate giant responsible for its global carbon footprint, the need to include gender in policy discussions on climate action, and the wisdom in starting young when attempting to effect a mindset change. We’ve come together to solve climate crises before (see here); we can do it again.