This episode features David Schlosberg, Professor of Environmental Politics and Director of the Sydney Environment Institute at the University of Sydney.
David is known internationally for his work on environmental, climate, ecological, and multispecies justice, and just approaches to climate adaptation/resilience, as well as issues of environmental action and sustainability in everyday life. Professor Schlosberg’s more applied work includes bringing issues of environmental justice, community experiences, and local knowledges to resilience and adaptation policy at multiple levels.
This talk addresses the increase in climate change turbulence, and how such disruptions are both an injustice and a motivator for a range of democratic responses. The reality of climate turbulence has created converging, overlapping, intersecting crises, increasingly understood as the polycrisis. Beyond such complexity, turbulence is disruptive and unjust in numerous ways – it is about the constant disruption and displacement of connections to place, to immersive and entangled environments – the experience of being unsettled. In response, many communities have developed forms of democratic innovation and experimentation fit to address such turbulence. I examine examples of democratic engagement and practice developed in response to environmental crises, ecological alienation, and climate disasters – from climate assemblies to multispecies transitions.
The Saving the World Webinar Series is presented by the Planetary Health Equity Hothouse, the series discusses the intersections between climate change, inequity, and human health. The focus is on actions that enable transformative change away from the harmful consumptogenic system to systems that promote good health, social equity and environmental wellbeing.
