LEARNING FOR UTOPIAN THINKING – LESSONS FROM THE JUDEO-CHRISTIAN TRADITION IN FACE OF THE CLIMATE CRISIS

Abstract

As perhaps the greatest threat to the foundations of the life of present and future generations as well as to nature, climate change also represents a serious inequality problem. Emotional reactions such as “climate guilt” or “ecological shame” indicate that a corresponding awareness of injustice has arrived in the everyday lives of many people, where it is often leaving its strongly paralyzing traces. After all, everything one does is always too little, not to mention what one does, knowing all too well that one really shouldn't do it. The lecture is about the question of whether there are resources for dealing with this frightening experience, what they consist of, and what role the Judeo-Christian tradition could play in this.