Solidarity in collapse

Theological reflections on the climate movement

Abstract

Authoritarian dynamics, the coronavirus pandemic, wars and global warming are diminishing confidence in necessary changes in terms of living conditions based on solidarity. In the climate justice movement, voices that interpret this social situation as a “collapse” are increasing. Their strategic question is no longer how global warming can be stopped, but how solidary relationships can work in collapse situations. In the following article, I highlight the content of the climate activist problem for the conceptualization of the New Political Theology. The aim is to outline a theology of solidary relationships that aims at the habitability of the earth and critically distinguishes itself from an apocalyptic accentuation of the New Political Theology.