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DESCRIPTION:The Anthropocene brings with it a frighteningly wide range of e
 nvironmental crises -- climate change\, ocean acidification\, pollution\, 
 rising extinction rates and risks of zoonotic pandemics\, just to name a f
 ew. We speak about these as if they were tied together\, but it is actuall
 y rather hard to say how exactly this is. \n\nIn this talk\, I will analys
 e some aspects of the Anthropocene with regard to their "problematicness"\
 , just as programmers might think through the problem definition\, necessa
 ry assumptions and Big-O notation before even starting to write a single l
 ine of code. In this\, I will try to give a broad overview of attempts to 
 model the environmental crises of the Anthropocene. I will argue that some
  of these are essentially solved\; but "solved" as in "chess is solved"\; 
 although we know that our computer can give us a definitive way of winning
 \, we still play it. For others\, however\, the scientific state-of-the-ar
 t can only point to a path towards a solution. Furthermore\, some of the t
 hings we think about as problems are actually more like ongoing catastroph
 es: No action will make them go away\, there is no solution in a strict se
 nse\; rather we have to live with them in such a way as to contain their c
 riticalness. This assessment will make it clear that we urgently need to r
 ethink the relationship between us and our environment in the Anthropocene
  since this will determine which aspects of the Anthropocene are problemat
 ic\, catastrophic or even apocalyptic.
DTSTAMP:20260415T001640Z
LOCATION:Piscopia
SUMMARY:Solving problems of the Anthropocene -- The tricky\, the hard and t
 he impossible - Theodor Sperlea
URL:https://pretalx.c3voc.de/divoc-reboot-to-respawn-2021/talk/CZLMKG/
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