Why science alone can’t solve the climate crisis with Conor Brennan

Although there has been scientific consensus on the climate crisis for decades, humans have been slow to respond to its urgency. Environmental humanities researcher Conor Brennan joins me to talk about:

• What is environmental humanities?
• How can evironmental humanities help to solve the climate crisis?
• The role of popular culture in communicating the climate crisis
• The problems that arise when we take arts and humanities out of the equations
• How art convinces people to change their behaviour about the climate crisis
• How has the climate crisis affected literature and aesthetic experiments?
• Why climate activism should include humanities teaching in schools/universities

Read "The Humanities in the UK Today" report by the Higher Education Policy Institute
Other sources discussed:

• Edward Said, "Jane Austen and Empire", Culture and Imperialism (1993)
• Richard Powers, The Overstory (2018)
• Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future (2020)
• Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plough Over the Bones of the Dead (2009)

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Artwork: Riduwan Molla https://www.canva.com/p/riduwanmolla/
Music: Madaan Mansij https://www.pond5.com/artist/mansij_tubescreamer
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