Possible Futures

This is a project about increasing knowledge, raising awareness, and changing humanity’s behaviour in how we treat the planet and each other. It gathers insights from academic disciplines ranging from biology in the natural sciences to criminology in the social sciences and literature in the humanities. Indigenous wisdom and the everyday know-how developed by people all over the world to survive poverty and fight environmental degradation also provide inspiration. All these ingredients are mixed in trying to respond to the most pressing question of our times: How can we save the planet from devastation while reducing suffering for all species on it?

Interviews in four categories are published: the Green Criminology Oral History Project, with scholars researching environmental crime and Harm; the Decolonial and Anticolonial Perspectives Oral History Project, with intellectuals combating colonialism; the Indigenous Voices series, with Indigenous thinkers across the world; and the Earth-Sytem series, with