Relational Ontologies and Multispecies Worlds: Transdisciplinary Possibilities for Environmental Education

In this Editorial, we provide an overview of the Special Issue on Relational Ontologies and Multispecies Worlds: Transdisciplinary Possibilities for Environmental Education.We set out to weave together insights from the sixteen contributions with our considerations, as Guest Editors, and literature that has informed this project.Elaborating on some of the problems that authors seek to address, we then present what we believe to be the purpose and significance of this collection of work.The purpose is a performative attempt to address some of the wicked problems implicating a flourishing planet and empowering modes of (environmental) education that purport social and ecological justice.The significance is the critical and creative approaches to curricular and pedagogical enactments that each author adopts through the combination of rich theoretical and empirical inquiries for (re)configuring different temporal horizons.We then articulate what we mean by relational ontologies and multispecies worlds, and transdisciplinary environmental education.Providing a meta-analysis of each article, we then position author contributions within four interrelated and intersecting clusters: Wrestling in the ruins: The hope for decolonial environmental education, Kinning in the ruins: The hope for creatures, critters and vegetal life, Playing in the ruins: The hope for productive technologies, Belonging in the ruins: The hope for relational care ethics.Filled with hope and inspiration from each author's insightful contributions to this Special Issue, we then query what might come next in the quest to imagine and actualise relational and sustainable presents and futurities.What is the problem?Widespread climate disruptions and ecological and social destruction, degradation and fragmentation across the planet are intensifying, causing problems for all life on earth.It only takes a cursory glance at the news (or out your window!) to see the latest unprecedented disturbance.The site-specific details of environmental damage can easily be forgotten when they happen at a distance and are talked about at a planetary level.However, as you will read within the pages of this Special Issue, the specific locations some of us live and work are increasingly impacted, with relational and sustainable solidarities between (Western) people and with the Earth needed now more than ever.As such, we have invited authors to highlight both the crux of