CEE Director Professor Mette High is in Canada this week as a Visiting Professor. During her visit, Mette will be participating in the Energy Ethics and Urban Futures in the Anthropocene Workshop, organised by the Center for Sustainable Cities. At the event, which also includes CEE Affiliate Adam Fleischmann, Mette will address the key themes of the workshop – energy transitions, energy ethics, cities, and possible futures in the Anthropocene – in dialogue with the other panel discussants (see image below).
Workshop Description
Energy projects promote particular viewpoints about the present, but also entail visions of how the world should be and how to enact desirable futures. In short, debates about energy raise fundamental ethical questions. In a time of energy crisis globally, this workshop will examine how ethical evaluations about energy and visions of the future are brought together to meet the challenges and possibilities of global environmental change. In a time of political polarization, this workshop will ask how cities can—or cannot—become shared ethical projects for a sustainable future. This workshop will take up these questions and more in order to examine how energy projects raise fundamental ethical questions about values, social organization, political imagination and the future.
