Saving the world through technical innovations? - Of utopian hope and denial of responsibility

Recently, WELT plus criticised the ‘ever-worse-ism’ of well-known school textbooks because their sometimes distorted graphics fuelled young people's climate fears.

An oversight or a political agenda? How do scientific models shape us? What do they tell us about our values and our relationship with nature?


The debate about climate change goes far beyond technical solutions. It is a profound examination of our way of life and our ideas of a sustainable future. From global movements such as eco-socialism and climate justice to eco-anarchism and anti-natalism, each of these movements offers its own view of the causes, solutions and moral implications of the climate crisis - and perhaps also sheds light on the attitudes of certain social groups? The aim is to examine the models that characterise us: What they hope for, what political system ideas underpin them, and what answers they provide to the most pressing questions of our time.

Great climate? Since industrialisation, we have been setting off gigantic CO2 fireworks and damaging it. Why are we reacting so late and so slowly?

Until now, it was not nature that was vulnerable, but mankind. Step by step, he had to reclaim and cultivate it. It was only with the development of technology that we subdued it. However, each new technology led to even greater consumption of resources.  Are we still aware of our responsibility for creation? Isn't a radical self-restraint the only way to save our disturbed relationship with nature?

The debate on climate change is a profound examination of our way of life and our ideas of a sustainable future. This requires a fact-based debate rather than ideological stances.

(Language: German)