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Author: Kilian Swirtz 1

Designer Babies

November 12, 2018 Kilian Swirtz 1

CRISPR technology is an unprecedented and fascinating technology that has the possibility to redesign the future through gene editing. Although…

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Posted in: Week 12: Gould, Specter, Harris

Earth isn’t the same

October 29, 2018 Kilian Swirtz 1

If I had the ability to vote on whether a new epoch should be added to the geological calendar, I…

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Posted in: Week 10: Climate Science (Steffen)

Is money that important?

October 22, 2018 Kilian Swirtz 1

Technological fixes can and need to fix our environment before it isn’t possible to save it. The Earth is already…

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Posted in: Week 09: Climate Science (Reidy)

Money over eventual death?

October 15, 2018 Kilian Swirtz 1 1 Comment

In his essay, LeCain stats “even when environmental techno-fixes do appear to solve problems for various human interest groups, they…

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Posted in: Week 08: Superfund (Part 2)

Mining kills

October 8, 2018 Kilian Swirtz 1 1 Comment

Mining has been around for hundreds of years and it still is a major business today. As technology advances so…

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Posted in: Week 07: Superfund (Part 1)

Big Bad Technology

October 1, 2018 Kilian Swirtz 1

Governments are put together and run on the basis of ideas that have been used in the past. They operate…

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Posted in: Week 06: Johnson (Part 2)

The good, the bad and the scientists

September 17, 2018 Kilian Swirtz 1

Like many people, Douthwaite believes that technological fixes are necessary to solve the world’s countless social problems. This is contrary…

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Posted in: Week 03: Technological Fix

How Climate and Geography Shaped Society

September 3, 2018 Kilian Swirtz 1

Yali’s question basically asks why some groups of society flourished while others simply did not. He asks why the Europeans…

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Posted in: Week 02: Diamond (MT)

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