Tuesday, April 4, 2023 - 4:30pm Miller Learning Center 267 Lecture The German-Engineering Program is hosting Dr. Kai Furmans from KIT to discuss our world's challenges. In his lecture, Dr. Furmans argues for two perspectives surrounding global warming. The first is trying to forbid everything which pollutes and emits CO2, especially by reducing consumption and travel. (Degrowth movement), since technical inventions have led to more combustion of fossil fuels. The second is to find technical solutions for the reduction and elimination of emissions, like CO2. By laying out the strategy, he argues that more advances in engineering and technologies are required, in order to provide the world with the required energy, food, health care, and mobility-services in the future. Therefore, engineers have the option to be the saviors and not the culprits.
