3. Ståle Holgersen, Distinguished Speaker for October 18 @ 2 PM ET

If crisis defines our era, we need a coherent policy in response. Ståle Holgersen delves into today's economic and ecological crises to demonstrate that they are not exceptions to an otherwise functioning system but integral to its operation. It is naive to see these upheavals as opportunities for reform or revolution. They are the bedrock of the status quo. Fortunately, the vicious circle sustaining capitalism is not founded on an iron law. Our historical mission in the face of the climate crisis is to create an historical exception to the rule. It is time for a new system to deal with the crisis.

Ståle Holgersen is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at Stockholm University. His current research interests include urban planning and development, class, crises and climate, urban and social geography, and sustainable development and climate denialism. In 2024, he co-edited Political Ecologies of the Far Right: Fanning the Flames (Manchester University Press) with Irma Kinga Allen, Kristoffer Ekberg, Ståle Holgersen, and Andreas Malm.

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