The societal structure we live in has cumulative impacts, causing detrimental intergenerational effects on the climate for centuries. Yet ethical arguments promoting action against climate change are often accused of moral superiority and petty hypocrisy, degrading the issue to a matter of individual choice and consumption. How can ethical prerogatives be used in a way that not only raises awareness but can change policy?
The event will interrogate through the lens of ethics and political ecology how anthropologists and policymakers can tackle the current climate crises. Taking the warnings of science seriously will mean taking an ethical stance on the political dimensions of climate change.
Bobby Banerjee’s primary research interests are in the areas of sustainability, climate change and corporate social responsibility. Other research interests include critical management studies, Indigenous ecology, postcolonial studies, cultural studies, and globalisation. He has published extensively in leading scholarly journals and is the author of two books: Corporate Social Responsibility: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly and the co-edited volume Organisations, Markets and Imperial Formations: Towards an Anthropology of Globalisation.
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