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Journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Kolbert will present, “Welcome to the Anthropocene: Lecture II What Can We Do About It?” for the second in her two-part Tanner Lecture on Human Values. The first lecture will be held Thursday, April 28. This event will be livestreamed via Princeton's Media Central Live and held in-person in the Friend Center, Lecture Hall 101. Registration is REQUIRED for in-person attendance and is free and open to members of the public who are fully immunized against COVID-19. For the second lecture, Kolbert will consider the human response to human domination of the planet and the steps we can take to counteract the effects of our (in many cases inadvertent) interventions in the biological and geochemical systems that support life. Some possibilities include genetically engineering organisms to suit a rapidly changing world and re-engineering the atmosphere to offset global warming. She will ask if it is possible to, in effect, ....
Journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Kolbert will present, “Welcome to the Anthropocene: Lecture I What on Earth Have We Done?” for the first in her two-part Tanner Lecture on Human Values. The second lecture will be held Friday, April 29. This event will be livestreamed via Princeton's Media Central Live and held in-person in the Friend Center, Lecture Hall 101. Registration is REQUIRED for in-person attendance and is free and open to members of the public who are fully immunized against COVID-19. For the first lecture, Kolbert will discuss the ways humans are changing the world on a geological scale, with a focus on changes to the atmosphere, ocean chemistry, and the rearrangement of the biosphere. She will be joined in discussion by geologist and science writer Marcia Bjornerud, professor of geology and environmental studies at Lawrence University, and Arun Majumdar, the Jay Precourt Professor of mechanical engineering at Stanford University. Ho ....