The global climate crisis is one of the greatest challenges of our time. Caused primarily by the industrialized countries, the consequences of climate change affect the Global South and poorer sections of the population worldwide the most. There is a threat of impoverishment and climate-induced migration. This imbalance is also increasingly becoming an issue in industrialized countries, as demonstrated by the climate activism of the “Last Generation”, for example. The exhibition “Bending the Curve – Knowledge, Action, [Care] for Biodiversity” – curated by the Frankfurter Kunstverein in cooperation with the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Center and Frankfurt Zoo – is dedicated to the question of how the decline in biodiversity can be halted and how a positive trend reversal can be achieved with ideas for action to help ecosystems recover.
In the accompanying program, the exhibition will be complemented by two events organized by the “Normative Orders” research center at Goethe University together with the Frankfurter Kunstverein. These will address questions such as: Can sustainable solutions to environmental crises be found and economic justice realized at the same time? How do the mutual interests of the international fossil fuel industry and climate activism relate to each other? And is there any hope of averting the climate crisis?
The opening lecture “Mobilizing Hope. Climate Activism, Solidarity and the Dangers of Plutocracy and Pessimism” by Prof. Dr. Darrel Moellendorf (Research Center “Normative Orders”, Goethe University) will take place on February 8, 2024 at 6:30 pm.
The second lecture “(Criminal) Law and Time in the Climate Crisis” by Prof. Dr. Klaus Günther followed by a panel discussion with Prof. Dr. Gabriele Britz (former judge of the Federal Constitutional Court, Justus Liebig University Giessen) and Prof. Dr. Christoph Burchard (Research Center “Normative Orders”, Goethe University) will follow on 20 February 2024 at 8 pm. D., Justus Liebig University Giessen) and Prof. Dr. Christoph Burchard (Research Center “Normative Orders”, Goethe University) will follow on 20 February 2024 at 8 pm. Rebecca Caroline Schmidt, Managing Director of the Research Center “Normative Orders”, Goethe University, will moderate.
