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Systems & Flows_SO 2_Q4_HC 1_Anthropocene
Stating the climate crisis problem
Bruno Latour
(VIDEO) CO2-emissions:
Like driving your car and getting lost in unconsiousness
What can we do to solve it?
Stop the car 20 years ago (people are already dying, it is actually already to late now
(only prevent apocalyptic world)
2008 -
Anthropocene
(geological era)
Earth has entered a "stratigraphic (studies ground/stone layers in order to explain a layers conditions and its era) interval without close parallel in the last several million years because of agricultural & urban (industrial) activities
We live in an entire different era than ever before (Holocene/last 12.000 years): Humans are involved in everything:
materials/concentrations (mirco-plastics deep in the oceans, CO2), climate & events, structures, composition of substances in the soil and so on, and so on.
Holocene
Interglacial era with unusually stable climate
(allowed agriculture & development of human civillization)
Anthropocene
What:
The human activities (landscape transformation) exeeds annual natural sediment production by an order of magnitude
Defined by:
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General / Start
1972 - Club of Rome
1970 - Whole Earth Catalogue
(the world can't be put together, it is a connected system)
Small beatutiful blue planet, but tiny, fragile and there is only 1 of
Exponnential development (CO2 etc.), can't go on like this forever (Earth's capacities)
Dyer-Witheford
The Factory Planet
(Global village)
Cities are hubs of huge, geographically stretched systems of infrastructure to metabolise enormous flows resources from distant sites
Food production in Brasil for Cities like Shanghai: world like 1 factory, designed/controlled by humans
Cities accountable for 75% of energy consumption & 80% greenhouse gas emissions (50% global soils are used for agriculture, 25% rivers run dry before reaching the sea
Caused by:
incredible rapid growth, extension of cities and capitalist urban-industrial systems
Luke (1997) & Gandy
Cyborg theory (manifest)
= geographically & temporally-strechted hybrids of humans, organisms & technology
cyborg assemblies blackouts, they threaten life
Urban
technonature
in a world of 'post-humans', the planet as a "
planned habitat
"of postmodernity
continually connecting landscape of urban sites & rural area
Dominant responses to the climate crisis problem: How will the Anthroponenic city look?
Limits of environmentalist discourses:
Geo-engineering,
Earth systems engineering ;
securistisation
= solve the problems of climate crisis with technology
Be aware/warned by quick technical fixes "terraforming", they
tend to disconnect and commercialize the problems and bring major unintended & unexpected effects
Cars: cars invented for the rich -> now for everybody, transformed the whole urban space and created traffic jams
South Korean company is leasing half of Madagaskars areable land for future food production (political decisions)
Simplistic & self-absorbed (egocentrisch) solutions: avoid the complexity of the Anthropogenic world & greenwashing
What problems does it solve & what are the positive effects? This is keep doing it the same way you always did (build with concrete & glass).
Eco-City
(
new Utopia
),
similar to new towns
Go back to a certain state when everything was good
(go back to tropes of pristine (ongerepte) nature; blotevoetenpad/eco-gekkies).
Majority does not want this
(only environmental freaks)
Urbanatura
: can cities as a cause (humans phenomenon) also be the solution to the problem?
Reset/restore Utopian Urbanism
Cities as dystopia: will we: create a counterforce, something in between or arrange society towards adaptation towards the situation?
Anthropocene revisted (solution)
Change in Earth systems resulting from human behaviour
Unprecedented challenges require unprecedented (radical) solutions
Utopianism
Ability to look beyond the current
(ideological paradigm) and envision a fundamentally different & better future
Realize they will never be realized, but they are necessary to stimulate change (Lefebvre)
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