From the Beginning to the End of the Climate Crisis

This paper summarises some of the main points of what was probably the first interdisciplinary symposium on climate change, organised in 1975 by the American anthropologist Margaret Mead. Referring to the conference‘s position paper, the author first develops the basic framework for a productive interaction between the social and natural sciences as Mead envisioned it and then presents the social consequences of the fact that the relationship remained institutionally disorganised – and eventually had to organise itself.

The integral version of this article can be found in the printed KINO!