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Challenging climate sobriety

Holly Jean: Ending Fossil Fuels: Why Not Zero Is Not Enough

CERTIFIED ORGANIC: We need such voices as Holly Jean Buck, who criticizes wishful thinking – precisely to help promote a hopeful, serious and long-lasting climate fight, beyond all easy optimism.
Anders Dunk -
literature

Ecology is playfully serious

Timothy Morton: All Art is Ecological

CERTIFIED ORGANIC: Penguins' newly launched green series presents old and new books that change the way we think and talk about the living earth. You are in the age of mass extinction, but the philosopher Martin Heidegger brings us here on the trail of what we need.
Alexander Carnera -
PHOTO

Photography in a climate time

Copenhagen Photo Festival: Photography can capture nature, document it, but also process nature. Showcase the being, the exotic, the vanishing in a special way.
Steffen Moestrup -
documentary

Grief is how we feel – when a loss is a fact (watch the movie here)

Andrea Culková: Žal Žen (Grief / Sorg)

ECO FILM: Extinction Rebellion is a fast-growing protest movement. They are in favor of transforming the love of nature and the rage over politicians' passivity into collective action. But what about the political potential of grief?
Anders Dunk -
documentary

Climate change: More severe than coronavirus

Phie Amb: 70/30

CLIMATE: The opening film at Copenhagen DOX: the young people influenced the climate choices of politics, but Ida Auken is the film's most important focal point.
Niels Johan Juhl-Nielsen -
literature

If we are to solve the climate crisis, we must speed up

Bernd Ulrich Kiepenheuer, Witsch Verlag: Everything is different. The Age of Ecology

CLIMATE: Snail speed in the climate effort will damage the climate, the people and democracy, according to Bernd Ulrich.
Ranveig Eckhoff -
INTERVIEW

"Our existence depends on changing our growth and consumption habits"

THE WOMAN OF CHANGE: MODERN TIMES talks this time with experienced Sandrine Dixson-Declève about sustainable growth and green development. She is now the leader of the European Commission's expert group for research and innovation.
Pinar Ciftci -
COMMENT

Green Deal for Europe

EUROPE: On 11 December, the European Commission presents the much-discussed Green Deal.
Paal Frisvold -
literature

Political climate change

Naomi Klein: On Fire – The Burning case for a Green New Deal

TURNING POINT: Naomi Klein appears credible when she advocates a total social upheaval – a fight for justice in the name of the climate.
Anders Dunk -
ESSAY

Found in translation

SAGAARVEN: When Iceland was a guest country at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2011, it was again remembered that Icelanders are best at making up stories, not at making money.
Mette Karlsvik -
COMMENT

The world's hardest turning point

WAR AND ENVIRONMENT: The military-economic complex is a giant environmental sinner.
Kari Elisabet Svare -
documentary

An extraordinary and endangered life

Alexei Vakhrushev: The Book of the Sea (Kniga morya)

Yupik-Inuit: The Book of the Sea is a mesmerizingly beautiful close-up study of a way of life that disappears in step with the melting of the poles, and shows a side of Russia we have hardly seen before.
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