Expecting the Unexpected: Getting Ready for a Wild Anthropocene

Lecture by Christopher Preston at the University of Amsterdam In 2016 the Anthropocene Working Group of the International Commission on Stratigraphy officially found that Earth has entered the Anthropocene. The purpose of this talk is to raise some questions surrounding the naming of this new epoch and to challenge some of the assumptions that have... Continue Reading →

November 22, 2016 0

Visiting fellow’s new edited collection on climate justice and geoengineering

Now that humanity’s industrial emissions have pushed the global atmosphere into states it has not experienced for more than 3 million years, should we call upon our scientists and engineers to try to push it back? This is the question raised by the dramatic prospect of climate engineering (or geoengineering). Visiting Distinguished Fellow in the... Continue Reading →

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Expecting the Unexpected: Getting Ready for a Wild Anthropocene

Visiting fellow’s new edited collection on climate justice and geoengineering

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