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Episode 7: The Politics of Geoengineering, Climate, and COVID-19 ft. Jane Flegal

Episode 7: The Politics of Geoengineering, Climate, and COVID-19 ft. Jane Flegal

FromThe Received Wisdom


Episode 7: The Politics of Geoengineering, Climate, and COVID-19 ft. Jane Flegal

FromThe Received Wisdom

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Length:
44 minutes
Released:
Jun 4, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Episode 7--The Politics of Geoengineering, Climate, and COVID-19 featuring Jane FlegalShobita and Jack discuss the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and its implications in the United States and Britain, and interview Jane Flegal, Program Officer overseeing US climate at The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, a Fellow at the Institute for Science, Innovation, and Society at the University of Oxford, Adjunct Professor in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society at Arizona State University.Links Related to the Podcast:- Ezra Klein (2019). "The geoengineering question." Vox. December 23.- Jane A. Flegal, Anna-Maria Hubert, David R. Morrow, Juan B. Moreno-Cruz (2019). "Solar Geoengineering: Social Science, Legal, Ethical, and Economic Frameworks." Annual Review of Environment and Resources. October.- David E. Winickoff, Jane A. Flegal, and Asfawossen Asrat (2015). "Engaging the Global South on climate engineering research." Nature Climate Change. June 24.- Jane A. Flegal and Aarti Gupta (2018). "Evoking equity as a rationale for solar geoengineering research? Scrutinizing emerging expert visions of equity." International Environmental Agreement: Politics, Law and Economics. 18: 45-61.- Jane A. Flegal and Andrew Maynard (2017). "'Geostorm' is a very silly movie that raises some very serious questions." Popular Science. October 22.- Carnegie Climate Governance Initiative (2020). "Remembering Steve Rayner: the person who framed the geoengineering debate."- Morgan Ames (2019). The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child. MIT Press.- Virginia Eubanks (2018). Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor. St. Martin's Press.Full transcript available at thereceivedwisdom.org.
Released:
Jun 4, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (40)

Are robots racist? Should we regulate gene editing? Have people stopped trusting experts? Does scientific research make the world a more unequal place? The Received Wisdom is a podcast about how to realize the potential of science and technology by challenging the received wisdom. Join Shobita and Jack as they talk to thinkers and doers from around the world about governing science and technology to make the world a better place.