Bristol Festival of Ideas: Christian Schwägerl

Christian Schwägerl

The Anthropocene: The Human Era and How It Shapes Our Planet

Tue 10 March 2015, 18.00-19.00

At-Bristol

Tickets are free but booking is required.

We live at a moment of deep change, between one geological epoch and another, between the Holocene and the present, an era we are beginning to call the Anthropocene. It is only recently that we have come to understand that our actions have already altered the planet, that we now shape nature, andthat we have the power to create a positive geological record. Alongside current ecological crises are countless examples of new thinking, such as smart cities, cultivated life forms and landscapes with human-induced biodiversity. Popular movements are fighting for their local ecologies, globally-connected pressure groups are forcing political change, and there is a growing recognition that diverse communities have an equal right to a say in this planet’s future. Christian traces our co-evolution on this planet and the growth of ideas about the Anthropocene concept.

BIOGRAPHY

Award-winning science and environment writer Christian Schwägerl attended the first ever UN climate summit in Berlin in 1995. Since then he has travelled the world's forests, reefs, glaciers and laboratories to report both a deep concern for the state of our planet and an essentially optimistic view of our future. Schwägerl has reported on science, environment and politics for Der Spiegel and Frankfurter Allegmaine Zeitung and currently writes for GEO, Die Zeit and Cicero magazine.

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