Behnam Taebi speaks about geo-engineering together with Pulitzer prize winner Elizabeth Kolbert
The John Adams Institute has invited Pulitzer prize winner Elizabeth Kolbert to come and speak about her new book ‘Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future’. She will be joined by Behnam Taebi, Professor of Energy & Climate Ethics. This free livestream event will take place on the 10th of June from 8.00-9.00 p.m.
We have already intervened in the earth’s system to the extent that we are now living in the ‘Anthropocene’. Maybe we can buy time by intervening even more, with so-called geo-engineering: turning carbon emissions to stone, for example, genetically modifying trees or even dimming the sun by shooting tiny diamonds into the stratosphere. After having done so much damage, can we change nature again, this time in order to save it? Behnam Taebi will speak about the ethical aspects of climate engineering.
About The John Adams Institute
The John Adams Institute provides an independent podium for American culture in the Netherlands. The institute believes in the power of words and ideas, and in intellectual exchange through real-life encounters. For three decades the best and the brightest of American thinkers were brought together from the fields of literature, politics, history, technology and the arts, such as Madeleine Albright, Jonathan Safran Foer, Spike Lee, Jonathan Franzen and Nobel Prize winners Toni Morrison and Joseph Stiglitz – to name just a few – to share their thoughts and insights with audiences in the Netherlands.
