A key premise is that learning's inherently social, while media consumption tends to be individualised. People also embrace new knowledge more readily when they feel they've discovered it for themselves. Thus, place-based, co-creative learning processes can offer a powerful pathway@ the local level.

In 1978, German science journalist Hoimar von Ditfurth warned millions on national TV about the coming #climatecrisis. His daughter later co-founded the Green Party. We’ve known what’s coming—and what must be done—for nearly half a century. Yet we still can’t act decisively. What holds us back?

Same for me—that’s all I’d need. I love it! But we chose not to buy a house and, instead of taking on a mortgage, opted for a kind of freedom dividend by remaining renters.

I think you’re right. It’s a change of mindset and finding new ways of living. They are often very positive.

I still remember exactly what I was doing as a junior high school student in 1986 when the Chernobyl fallout reached our region. The claim that Germany was ‘forced’ to abandon nuclear power is an ahistorical rewriting of events by today’s pro-nuclear advocates. I state it as neutrally as I can.

I’m withholding my own opinion here, but the idea that Germany was ‘forced’ to abandon nuclear energy doesn’t hold up. Growing up in Germany in the 1980s, I can say that we were already widely terrified of nuclear power—especially after Chernobyl.