How do arts, humanities and sciences deal with climate change? Contributions from various disciplines, interviews and background articles.
Questions concerning the cultural assumptions about and the consequences of climate change are currently being discussed in a wide variety of contexts. Yet also at issue is what each of us can do to counter impending disasters.
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The debt crisis and the hardening fronts in the American election campaign have booted the subject of climate change off the political agenda. A bad omen for the upcoming climate summit in Durban, where representatives of the UN member states will come together from 28 November to 9 December to discuss the continuation of the Kyoto Protocol, which expires at the end of 2012. An Interview with Sven Harmeling, team leader of the international climate policy lobbying organization for ecological sustainability and justice, Germanwatch.
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