During the lecture Holly Jean Buck will get into the matter of collaborative climate design, and the type of imagination that animates most carbon removal and solar geoengineering proposals. While solar geoengineering is largely dreamed up by modelers, carbon removal has grassroots energy in the form of “regeneration”. Moreover, cities around the world are experimenting with deliberative engagement in thinking about how to accomplish their net-zero by 2050 goals. Yet—these regenerative ideas are not typically the most scalable in terms of removing gigatons of carbon. Along with the audience Holly will explore how it might be possible to inject creativity and collaboration into not just local, boutique projects, but to scale collaboration in industrial processes as well.
Holly Jean Buck is a geographer, writer, environmental sociologist, The Terraforming faculty member, and the author of After Geoengineering (Verso, 2019). Currently locked down in Los Angeles, she will be an assistant professor of Environment & Sustainability at the University at Buffalo in New York, where she teaches environmental justice.
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On Collaborative Geoengineering. Lecture by Holly Jean Buck