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The technosphere, our agency, our planet

What can we do, what should we do?

Author: Cécile Stephanie Stehrenberger

Posted on December 4, 2019December 4, 2019

There is no climate justice without decolonization

By Urs Lindner and Cécile Stehrenberger Climate protection and climate justice are not necessarily the same thing. Last week – climate strike week – Marvin Volk from Fridays for Future Erfurt made this point in a short statement he gave during a class we teach. We spent the rest of the seminar exploring the relationship …

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Topics

  • The Journey Begins
  • Welcome to the Technosphere
  • Our goals
  • Do humans have free will? Or are our actions merely manifestations of a thermodynamic imperative? Or are both views right in their own ways?
  • In a Climate-neutral Solar Economy, Would the Technosphere Outcompete the Biosphere? A Provocation.
  • The technosphere as a ‘major transition’?
  • Agere and gerere – on ‘action’ in the critical zone
  • A Unified Evolutionary Approach to the Biosphere and the Technosphere?
  • Solving the Puzzle of Emergent Order: The Case for Maximum Entropy Thinking
  • Revolution impossible? Us against Us
  • Drivers wanted
  • The Challenge: Agency in the Technosphere
  • Marxism and the Technosphere
  • Why we can regain agency and how – a riposte to James Dyke
  • We’ve created a civilisation hell bent on destroying itself
  • Co-creation and agency in the Earth system
  • In a Climate-neutral Solar Economy, Would the Technosphere Outcompete the Biosphere? A Provocation.

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