Our guest lecturer René Gabriels will give an insight into climate change and the climate crisis and will unravel it to the core by explaining the system that underlies this problem and what the alternatives are. He will end with a few lessons for to take into consideration while working on and thinking about sustainability and thus hopefully leave us with motivation to become active ourselves.  

René Gabriëls is lecturer at Maastricht University. The main fields of research are social philosophy, sociology of knowledge, philosophy of language and sociology of stratification. His research focuses on democracy, global justice, human rights, poverty, the changed role of philosophy and the relation between semantics and pragmatics. He wrote books about intellectuals, racism and local democracy and articles about the afore mentioned topics.