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Why have sociologists been so reluctant in analysing the carbon lockin of modern societies, and why is their contribution so weak when it comes to delineating the contours of a postcarbon society? What – if it managed to change this uncomfortable situation – would be the contribution of a sociology that actively explores such a postcarbon society? And what would such a change-conducive sociology itself look like? These are some of the major questions that Michael Redclift deals with in his opening article. He does so for quite some time now (cf. Redclift 2009, 2010, 2011), and the fact that he has to repeat himself indicates that sociologists have not really responded rapidly to what he has to say. But they should – his questions are more than appropriate. They are urgent. And they must hurt every upright environmental sociologist. But the problem is less that environmental sociology has been ‘sub-optimal’ in delivering their bit to the possible coming of a post-carbon society. The main problem is that sociology has an even poorer track record. The analysis of the carbon lock-in of modern society, as well as a future oriented look at possible pathways out of it –envisioning a postcarbon society – clearly transcend the domain of environmental sociology. Both refer to the very basic principles of modernity, their historical making, their current mechanisms of reproduction, and their critical social

Sociological Tasks in View of the Transition to Post-carbon Societies. Also a Comment to Michael Redclift