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Support us financially ► http://www.paypal.me/JungNaiv Discuss in the Jung & Naiv Forum ► http://forum.jungundnaiv.de/ Guest in the studio: sustainability researcher and university lecturer Melanie Jaeger-Erben. From June 2019 to September 2021 she was Professor for Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research in Electronics at the TU Berlin. Since October 1, 2021 she has been Professor of Technology and Environmental Sociology at the Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus-Senftenberg. Since 2022 she has held a visiting professorship at Aalborg University in Denmark. Among other things, she headed the BMBF junior research group "Obsolescence as a challenge for sustainability - causes and alternatives" and the citizen science project REPARA/KUL/TUR. Since May 2021 Jaeger-Erben has been a member of the Resources Commission of the Federal Environment Agency. She is also a member of the expert commission for the Federal Government's fourth equality report. A conversation about the academic triangle of transformation research, psychology and sociology, renunciation and individual thinking, the isolation of people through capitalism, competition instead of cooperation, collective thinking and action, Melanie's origins, youth and career, her professorship in Cottbus and students, causes of our destructive consumer behavior and the psychological impact of consumption, consumer competence, fear of renunciation, market and political responsibility for the transformation, repairing instead of buying new, product lifespan, shareholder value and capitalist growth pressure, system change, circular economy and sufficiency as well as the term sustainability + your questions via Hans Please support our work financially: Account: Jung & Naiv IBAN: DE854 3060 967 104 779 2900 GLS Gemeinschaftsbank PayPal ► http://www.paypal.me/JungNaiv #sustainability #capitalism #sociology