Conférence - Jens Beckert : How We Sold Our Future. The Failure to Fight Climate Change

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Jens Beckert discusses the sociological aspects of our failure to combat climate change within capitalist structures.

Pierre-Michel Menger Sociologie du travail créateur Collège de France Année 2025-2026 How We Sold Our Future. The Failure to Fight Climate Change Conférence - Jens Beckert : How We Sold Our Future. The Failure to Fight Climate Change Jens Beckert Directeur de l'institut Max-Planck pour l'étude des sociétés à Cologne, Allemagne Résumé For decades we have known about the dangers of global warming. Nevertheless, greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase. How can we explain our failure to take the necessary measures to stop climate change? In How We Sold Our Future. The Failure to Fight Climate Change, sociologist Jens Beckert delves into the connections between capitalist structures and our failure to address the climate crisis. How do we stop selling our future for the next quarterly figures, the upcoming election result and today's pleasure?

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Host: Pierre-Michel Menger

Guest: Jens Beckert

Topics covered

• climate change
• capitalism
• sociology
• environmental policy
• sustainability

Keywords

• climate crisis
• greenhouse gas emissions
• sociology
• capitalist structures
• environmental action

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Organizations: Max-Planck Institute