Adam Aron is a climate and ecological activist and professor at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of The Climate Crisis: Science, Impacts, Policy, Psychology, Justice, Social Movements (Cambridge University Press, 2023) and host of the podcast Holding Ground.
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How do we build social movements in an age of collapse? An interview with activist Tadzio Müller – Cont’d
In a catastrophe, the most important thing is social relations. Anything that builds resilient social relations is a step towards having agency in a catastrophe.
September 30, 2026
How do we build social movements in an age of collapse? An interview with activist Tadzio Müller
Honestly, it was very difficult to create a climate movement in Germany. We worked for five years with hardly any attention. Then the Paris summit happened, and we exploded.
September 29, 2026
Is it strategic to refocus towards climate adaptation?
As global heating accelerates and climate damages mount all around us, and as climate organizations and activists grow desperate about what to do, SAFER provides important new thinking. The challenge, one of the biggest of our times for organizers, theorists and social scientists, is how to bring this idea into our various countries at an organizational level.
July 15, 2025
The Climate Crisis: Interview with Social Psychologist Kelly Fielding
Of course we need economic, political and other system change, but I think we have to also believe that we, individuals, have a role to play too, and to do whatever we can to address this looming climate crisis.
July 14, 2021
Climate Justice and Movement Building: An Interview with Brian Tokar
When we started organizing around climate justice back in the early period of 2006 to 2009 it was mostly just an idea. Now there are local groups and national scale groups all over the world that strongly identify with the mission of climate justice…
June 4, 2021
Mark Jacobson on the clean energy transition
We’re making progress on electric power, but the other sectors are slower. We need really aggressive laws, especially in industry, and also buildings and transportation.
June 1, 2021
