Climate Emergency and Climate Justice

Towards a Future without Certainty

Abstract

In uncertain times, how can we ensure that the Earth remains a safe place for humanity? Is humanity reacting correctly to the threats of climate change? Are we doing the right things or are our actions perhaps way too late? Questions of this kind are discussed in this paper, which underscores how complex the climate problem is. After all, it is not productive to state a strong conviction about the only correct way and method forward. Naïve explanatory models and simple answers will evidently not help when faced with a problem that is complex and unpredictable. Instead of certainty and inflexibility, an ethics of uncertainty is offered, but that kind of ethics moves forward at the speed of ambiguity.