Energy Ethics 2023
Financing the Future
6th - 8th June
St Andrews and Online
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Finance shapes our lives in ways that are both explicit and veiled: From the prices we pay for energy, food and housing, to loans for sustainable home improvements, utility infrastructure projects, and large-scale operations. Financial practices, modalities, and representations touch almost every aspect of our lives.
Finance is fundamentally entwined with visions of and expectations for the future. It can fuel the future-gazing aspirations of entrepreneurs, feelings of hope, desires for innovation, and shared moral horizons. At the same time, it can create relations of obligation and indebtedness, deepen historical patterns of inequality and exclusion, and power feelings of despondency and despair.
At a time of growing energy demand and rapid climate change, we ask: How will we finance the future? What moral aspi