Postliberal Ecology

A new program in our Beyond State and Market initiative

The Telos-Paul Piccone Institute is launching a program on postliberal ecology, which is part of our Beyond State and Market initiative led by Adrian Pabst.

The aim of the program is to develop thinking on nature that avoids at once the progressive-liberal trap of bourgeois environmentalism that seeks to reduce CO₂ emissions on the back of working people and the radical populist trap of climate change denial. Instead, our ambition is to bring together thinkers who can reconnect ecology to local places and the land, to people’s sense of belonging, and to ethical approaches that promote the moral responsibility to act as stewards of common goods such as nature and the environment.

We will combine critiques of technocracy, liberal legalism, untrammeled market liberalism, and the bureaucratic state with a positive vision of environmentalism that draws on both religious and secular sources of thinking and practice, including notions of sacredness and wisdom found in more traditional ways of life.

TPPI is delighted to partner with the Centre for Social Renewal, the co-organizer of the December 2024 postliberalism conference in Cambridge, and Our Common Home, an international network that promotes the civic participation of everyone in society to build solutions to the changing natural environment.

We will bring together public intellectuals, academics, politicians, and community organizers from North America, Latin America, and Europe. There will be an initial workshop on December 6, 2025, in New York City and a two-day international conference on March 26–27, 2026, in Berlin, with the option of a final event in Washington, DC, in the autumn of 2026.

Please contact TPPI for details, which will be announced in the coming months.

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