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Beyond technical fixes, addressing the climate-energy impasse requires imagining a different world to change our perceptions and paradigms. By drawing on the arts, humanities, and social sciences, people can envision alternative worlds where social, economic, and political systems become solutions instead of barriers. Solarpunk, a creative and digital genre, is one example that helps us imagine sustainable futures and break through energy impasses.
Beyond technical fixes, addressing the climate-energy impasse requires imagining a different world to change our perceptions and paradigms. By drawing on the arts, humanities, and social sciences, people can envision alternative worlds where social, economic, and political systems become solutions instead of barriers. Solarpunk, a creative and digital genre, is one example that helps us imagine sustainable futures and break through energy impasses.
Climate Scientist Simon Donner argues that climate change is ultimately a failure of imagination. “To get there, we need our imaginations. We need the courage to see a different future, and chart the path there,” (Tedx Talks, 2022, 9:17).
Climate Scientist Simon Donner argues that climate change is ultimately a failure of imagination. “To get there, we need our imaginations. We need the courage to see a different future, and chart the path there,” (Tedx Talks, 2022, 9:17).
Minou Schilling (2024) argues that imagination is the key to building regenerative, sustainable futures. She highlights how play, storytelling, and radical creativity can break us free from narrow, human-centered thinking and inspire new narratives of connection, love, and compassion (Schilling, 2024). Through ego-, eco-, and seva-imagination, we can reimagine a society in harmony with all life on Earth (Schilling, 2024).
Minou Schilling (2024) argues that imagination is the key to building regenerative, sustainable futures. She highlights how play, storytelling, and radical creativity can break us free from narrow, human-centered thinking and inspire new narratives of connection, love, and compassion (Schilling, 2024). Through ego-, eco-, and seva-imagination, we can reimagine a society in harmony with all life on Earth (Schilling, 2024).
James Arnott and Sarah Spengeman (2022) highlight the importance of how storytelling can help imagine different versions of our shared future. "As human imagination expands, so does the range of available future possibilities to consider" (Arnott & Spengeman, 2022, para. 20). Using our imagination can shape climate action by shifting what societies consider possible and acceptable (Arnott & Spengeman, 2022).
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