Climate Security and Climate Futures

Whether at European or global level, extreme weather events and climate risks are increasingly becoming part of everyday life. Against this backdrop, researchers at the IFSH are investigating which political and technological solutions are possible for adapting to this new, dynamic climate reality. This also raises the question of how society envisages a future adapted to climate change, and what security and socio-political challenges and risks this entails. The focus is, amongst other things, on the security and normative aspects of ‘extreme’ adaptation mechanisms, such as resettlement due to rising sea levels. Research is also being carried out into so-called climate engineering technologies, which use technical means to attempt to intervene directly in the climate.

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Melting glaciers, flooded cities, people on the move: images of catastrophic futures shape how we imagine the world in times of climate crisis. For activists from Fridays for Future and other climate movements, such visions of the future can become a driving force for protest. Yet the visual language of the climate movement is far more multifaceted, as the exhibition “Climate No Future?” reveals. From today, it is permanently accessible online as a digital exhibition at climatenofuture.de.

The exhibition brings together 34 photographs taken by members of the climate movements Extinction Rebellion, Fridays for Future, and the Last Generation. Together with quotes from the activists, the…

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