How environmental politics lost the future: and why we only talk about looming catastrophe

SoDy’s Florian Jehn has been delving into environmental politics, the shift in popular narrative of our environmental future from one of hope to one that no longer challenges the status quo, and how we can move back to positive visions for the future. Florian draws on the work Captured Futures: Rethinking the Drama of Environmental Politics by Maarten A. Hajer and Jeroen Oomen (2025), which he succinctly summarises for us in this edition of Existential Crunch. Hajer and Oomen’s work “lays out a blueprint on how we ended up in the current world of dystopian futures, what forces shape our future thinking and what we might have to do, to be able again to envision futures worth fighting for and make them real.”

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