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Arne Harms: Modest Geoengineering: infrastructuring forests in the Indian Himalayas

Termin Dienstag, 26. Juni 2018, 16.15 - 18.00 Uhr
Veranstaltungsart Vorlesung/Vortrag
Einrichtung Philosophische Fakultät I
Veranstalter Max-Planck-Institut für ethnologische Forschung und Seminar für Ethnologie der MLU
Veranstaltungsort Max-Planck-Institut für ethnologische Forschung, Großer Seminarraum
Straße Advokatenweg 36
PLZ/Ort 06114 Halle (Saale)
Ansprechpartner Bettina Mann
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E-Mail mann@eth.mpg.de

Beschreibung

Over the last decades, carbon dioxide (CO2) has become one of humanity’s key concerns. Together with a number of other greenhouse gases, CO2 is driving global warming and thus threatening planetary survival. Yet, global emissions are rising unabated.

In this paper, I explore ways of dealing with CO2 as forms of waste disposal. CO2 is a peculiar form of discard. It is a by-product of all kinds of production and consumption activities. It is a building block of life as we know it. At the same time, certain concentrations of the gas in the atmosphere hold the potential to bring dramatic changes to climate regimes. It’s quality – as either threatening or valuable – is thus relative and subject to its concentration and form [...]. (Speaker's Abstract)

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