Lecture from Sighard Neckel: Covid-19 – Lesson in climate change and sustainability?

3 June 2020

At the digital colloquium "Sociological Perspectives on the Corona Crisis" at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB), Sighard Neckel explored the question of what structural similarities, but also what important differences there are between the pandemic and the climate crisis. What conclusions can be drawn for a society of sustainability?

The Lecture Covid-19 – Lehrstück für Klimawandel und Nachhaltigkeit? (in German) as Podcast

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