Paul Warde's guest appearances

Paul Warde

Cultures of Energy

History & Policy

Graham Harman

Gail Simmons

Ben Taylor

Sarah Richardson

Timothy Morton

Jeff VanderMeer

Rosalind Fredericks

Katharine Hayhoe

Shannon Lee

Graeme MacDonald

Tim Lewens

John Broome

Robert Macfarlane

Matthew Taylor

Sophia Roosth

OwlTail

We get to hear about Cymene’s mod years and her experience this week with “cat therapy.” And then (14:06) Dominic speaks with Cambridge environmental historian Paul Warde about his new book, The Invention of Sustainability: Nature and Destiny, ca. 1500-1870 (Cambridge UP 2018) which traces our contemporary interest in sustainable futures back to the concerns and inventions of early modern politics and economy. We start with the endemic problems of sustenance and fuel that were much on the mind of early modern European government and how they helped to shape future resource provision into a durable political problem. Paul explains how also changing was the idea that government should be responsible for resource provision in the first place and how this suggests that sustainability is an intrinsic feature of modern politics rather than a problem that is likely to be solved through particular policy interventions. We talk intergenerational ethics, the circumstances surrounding the transition from wood fuel to coal, the rise of a concept of “state” as autonomous political entity, the preoccupations of early political economy, early technoptimism, urbanization, metabolic rift and much more. We close with Paul’s thinking about energy policy today.

We get to hear about Cymene’s mod years and her experience this week with “cat therapy.” And then (14:06) Dominic speaks with Cambridge environmental historian Paul Warde about his new book, The Invention of Sustainability: Nature and Destiny, ca. 1500-1870 (Cambridge UP 2018) which traces our contemporary interest in sustainable futures back to the concerns and inventions of early modern politics and economy. We start with the endemic problems of sustenance and fuel that were much on the mind of early modern European government and how they helped to shape future resource provision into a durable political problem. Paul explains how also changing was the idea that government should be responsible for resource provision in the first place and how this suggests that sustainability is an intrinsic feature of modern politics rather than a problem that is likely to be solved through particular policy interventions. We talk intergenerational ethics, the circumstances surrounding the transition from wood fuel to coal, the rise of a concept of “state” as autonomous political entity, the preoccupations of early political economy, early technoptimism, urbanization, metabolic rift and much more. We close with Paul’s thinking about energy policy today.

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Theme 4: Conditions for rapid change In order to address pressing environmental challenges (particularly but not only climate change) and reduce possible dangerous levels of economic inequality, it may be necessary to achieve rapid change politically, economically, socially and technologically. What were the conditions that led to rapid change in the past?

Theme 4: Conditions for rapid change In order to address pressing environmental challenges (particularly but not only climate change) and reduce possible dangerous levels of economic inequality, it may be necessary to achieve rapid change politically, economically, socially and technologically. What were the conditions that led to rapid change in the past?

Paul Warde - Why change happens: What we can learn from the past

Policy Impact Skills for Historians 10.40-12.30: Session 2 Historians, civil society and public policy: a scenario- based session Using environmental issues as a prism, this session will explore the relationship of between policy shapers, such as historians and NGOs, and central government via group exercises. Dr Paul Warde, Reader in Environmental and Economic History University of East Anglia

Policy Impact Skills for Historians 10.40-12.30: Session 2 Historians, civil society and public policy: a scenario- based session Using environmental issues as a prism, this session will explore the relationship of between policy shapers, such as historians and NGOs, and central government via group exercises. Dr Paul Warde, Reader in Environmental and Economic History University of East Anglia