ICREA-CCCB Debates
Planet 2050
Conversations about future scenarios stemming from the climate crisis
This year’s ICREA-CCCB debate will focus on a hypothetical year – 2050 – to reflect on future scenarios stemming from the climate crisis and to address the challenges that lie ahead in order to tackle the gloomiest predictions.
Climate change is the agent that will shape our future world. Migratory shifts, climate-related diseases, uninhabitable zones and new geopolitical relationships are, without doubt, among the problems the planet will have to face over the coming decades. Moreover, scientists are alerting us to the fact that it is becoming increasingly likely that global warming will take our planet to a point of no return, with unforeseeable consequences for our civilisation.
The idea of a world radically different to ours is, perhaps, the only certainty about the future that is approaching. Whether we want to reverse the process of global warming, or if this process proves unstoppable, we will have to begin to live in a very different way. So, if this change is inevitable, what are prospects for the future of our planet? Should we listen to those people who are committed to degrowth as the only way out? Should we use innovations in synthetic biology to repair the damaged ecosystems?
All the discussions in the «Planeta 2050» season will be moderated by the journalist Mercè Folch, the writer and co-presenter of the programme «El suplement» on Catalunya Ràdio.
This activity is part of After the End of the World, ICREA-CCCB Debates
