Climate, Sustainability & Inequality Seminar: Notes on Planetary Habitability by Prof Achille Mbembe

As part of Wits University’s focus on the intersection of climate change, sustainability and inequality, the first presentation in a seminar series was launched, with the internationally acclaimed scholar Professor Achille Mbembe delivering his address: Notes on planetary habitability. In his keynote address, Mbembe explained that the philosophical and existential questions posed about planetary habitability, are far from abstract, and cut across academic disciplines and Faculties. Scientists and humanists alike are grappling with the concept of habitability. “What conditions are favourable to life? How do these conditions come to be? Critically, how can they be harnessed, maintained and reproduce in such a way that sustains all life forms?” He added that planetary equilibrium has been disrupted to such an extent that climate change is a political question, and one of social justice. Read more here: https://www.wits.ac.za/news/latest-ne...