Climate Fates: Hope, Despair, Denial

Bring your lunch and hear about the latest environmental research taking place at Essex.

Every other Monday, The Centre for Environment and Society (CES) is convening a series of informal lunchtime seminars in 4SW.6.6 (Seminar Room 1). All members of the university are welcome and there is no need to sign up.

The aim is to bring researchers across the university together to discuss and learn about the range of research on the climate and environment happening at the University of Essex.

If you would be interested in presenting your research, please contact Dr Ellisif Wasmuth (ew17641@essex.ac.uk).

This event

In this seminar PhD student Christopher Fisher from the School of Philosophical, Historical, and Interdisciplinary Studies will talk about "Climate Fates: Hope, Despair, Denial".

What stands in the way of climate action, why can’t we act? Do we hope too much or too little? Does the spread of despair represent an honest experience of our situation, or resignation to it? The climate movement has long debated the correct critical and affective concept which, were we to adopt, would help us escape our predicament or face it more honestly. In this talk I look to a recent entry into this debate, climate fatalism or doomerism, to ask what confronting it does to our understanding of the climate crisis.