The Questions Science Cannot Answer – with Dougald Hine & David Cayley

A conversation between Dougald Hine (The Dark Mountain Project, At Work in the Ruins) and David Cayley, longtime presenter of CBC Ideas.

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“Climate change asks us questions that climate science cannot answer.”
— At Work in the Ruins

As co-founder of the Dark Mountain Project, Dougald Hine has spent two decades in the middle of public conversations about climate change, collaborating with scientists, artists and activists. In 2014, the New York Times introduced Dark Mountain to its readers as “changing the environmental debate in Britain and the rest of Europe”. But by the start of this decade, he had become increasingly concerned about what was missing from the way we talk about the climate crisis – and that the ways we were responding to the crisis were in danger of making everything worse.

His new book, At Work in the Ruins, grew out of the questions this led him to ask. Amitav Ghosh calls it “essential reading for our turbulent times”, while Brian Eno writes that it “demands we stare into the abyss and rethink our securest certainties about what is actually going on in the climate crisis.”

At the Centre for Social Innovation, Dougald will be joined by David Cayley, the longtime presenter of CBC’s Ideas, to talk about the questions we need to be asking. This will be an important conversation for anyone concerned with climate, culture and the search for viable forms of common life in the times around and ahead of us.

David Cayley is the author of Ideas on the Nature of Science and Ivan Illich: An Intellectual Journey, as well as two books of conversations with Ivan Illich. His work is an important reference point for At Work in the Ruins so this is an exciting opportunity to bring their dialogue into a public setting for the first time.

This event has been made possible by the support and collaboration of the Centre for Social Innovation and The Stoa.
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