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To Freeze the Thames - Geo-Science and Climate Struggles
January 09, 2019
Is advanced-industrial capitalism capable of finding solutions for the environmental devastation it causes? Or are the logics of capitalism and environmental sustainability at odds? This session of The Capitalism Workshop explores the economics and politics surrounding natural geo-engineeringre-wilding agricultural land, freed up by compulsory veganism-to replicate the hemispheric cooling of the Little Ice Age, and features our special guest Troy Vettese, whose article "To Freeze the Thames" was recently published in the New Left Review (Debating Green Strategy).
The Little Ice Age provides insight into the global ecological repercussions of colonialism, and it also hints at the possible democratisation of natural geo-engineering (NGE). NGE involves accelerating carbon sequestration through natural processes as a means of safely ameliorating climate change. A rival approach, artificial geo-engineering (AGE), would put iron filings or limestone into the oceans and aerosols into the skies to reflect sunlight into space. Given its complexity, tinkering with the global climate system is terribly risky even if increasingly likely.
Time: 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Venue: Workers Action Center
Location: 720 Spadina Ave, 2nd floor (suite 202) Toronto, ON
Website: http://www.facebook.com/events/580674892362827/
Categories: Environment
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