The End of Sustainability. What comes next? John Foster

The End of Sustainability.
What comes next?
John Foster
September 28, 2016, 6:30 pm
Vienna University of Economics and Business, Ceremonial Hall 2, building LC
Welthandelsplatz 1, 1020 Wien
In his books The Sustainability Mirage (2008) and After Sustainability (2015)
John Foster argues that hopes for successful climate policy and a development
that can be called “sustainable” are unfounded: climate change will come,
and sustainable development is impossible as long as “progressivism” rules.
“There is”, writes Foster, “no going back. We cannot for the foreseeable future
recover the kind of collective communion with the non-human wild that has
sustained us for most of the human past.” This and other provocative
statements call for discussion, especially of the question: Then what? What
comes next? John Foster will give a public lecture on his ideas and will discuss
with

Ingolfur Blühdorn, WU-Institute for Social Change and
Sustainability (IGN)

Margaret Haderer, affiliated postdoc researcher at the IGN

Verena Madner, WU-Research Institute for Urban Management and
Governance
Moderation: Fred Luks, WU-Competence Center for Sustainability
This event is co-organised by
the WU-Institute for Social Change and Sustainability (IGN)
and the WU-Competence Center for Sustainability
http://www.wu.ac.at/IGN/ | http://www.wu.ac.at/sustainabilitycenter
Please register by September 23rd at: [email protected]

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