The Future Is Not in Short Supply – Regenerative Economics Instead of Resignation

“The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something we make, and could just as easily make differently.” David Graeber

The climate crisis is increasingly absent from political debate - not because it has been solved, but because other crises have grown louder. At the same time, effective political frameworks are lacking, economic transformation is too slow, and societal polarization hinders collective solutions. The sense of inevitability grows. Yet this perception is misleading: the future is not in short supply. Spaces for action exist beyond the artificially constructed oppositions between economy and climate.

Where do concrete opportunities for regenerative economics lie today? How can climate, social security, and economic stability be considered together rather than pitted against each other? What political decisions and institutional changes are needed to make transformation effective?

In conversation: Ilona Otto, sociologist and climate scientist; Georg Günsberg, climate economist and co-founder of the Kontext Institute; and Baro Vicenta Ra Gabbert, Greenpeace spokesperson, lawyer, and author of No Future Is Also Not a Solution. Moderated by Katharina Kropshofer, science journalist specializing in environment and society, the panel focuses on economic regeneration as a democratic task of shaping the future amid political gridlock and concrete pathways for change.