Extreme weather, a decline in biodiversity, and rising greenhouse gas emissions: the impacts of the climate crisis are becoming increasingly dramatic. But what consequences does the climate crisis have on social inequality? Are unequal relations between the global North and the global South increasing as a result of the climate crisis? And is there a connection between the climate crisis and the crisis of democracy?

With its new discussion format “IGRec Talks,” the Institute for Global Reconstitution provides exclusive insights. In our first episode, the Canadian cultural theorist and public intellectual Imre Szeman speaks about the global rise of the far right, the glorification of extractivist culture, and how this attitude is exacerbating the climate crisis.

Imre Szeman, Professor of Human Geography at the University of Toronto Scarborough in Canada, does not see himself as a neutral observer. He is fighting for change that addresses both ecological and social questions.