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Intervention is a podcast from the KTH Environmental Humanities Laboratory that, in conversations with a range of experts, scholars and stakeholders, applies humanities and social science methods and theories to questions of environment, nature and climate and their representations in society and culture.

For decades, our world has understood that we are on the brink of an apocalypse—yet the only implemented solutions have been small and convenient, feel-good initiatives that avoid unpleasant truths about the root causes of our impending disaster. Wes Jackson and Robert Jensen argue that we must reconsider the origins of the consumption crisis and the challenges we face in creating a survivable future. Longstanding assumptions about economic growth and technological progress—the dream of a future of endless bounty—are no longer tenable.