Technology in the fight against climate change - is everything allowed?
Created: 01/10/2023 16:13
On January 12, the Grafinger physicist and theologian Maximilian Freiherr von Seckendorff will discuss climate change and its consequences with the Ebersberg Kolping Family.
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On Thursday, January 12, the Grafinger physicist and theologian Maximilian Freiherr von Seckendorff will inform the Kolping Family Ebersberg about what is technically feasible and ethically justifiable in the fight against climate change
Ebersberg – The switch to 100 percent sustainable energy production can succeed, but will it be fast enough and worldwide?
And if the global efforts to protect the climate are not enough?
What can man do when climate change threatens to get out of control, what can he do?
In areas such as agriculture, the cement industry and heating, it will hardly be possible to achieve complete climate neutrality by 2045, even in Germany.
In order to offset the remaining emissions, there are a number of ideas for so-called "climate engineering".
This refers to large-scale technical interventions in the climate system that serve to cool the climate artificially and thus actively counteract climate change.
This can either be achieved by filtering CO2 out of the air again, for example by means of capture and underground storage, or by reflecting the sunlight, for example by spraying aerosol particles into the atmosphere.
Maximilian Freiherr von Seckendorff will critically examine and discuss which such "climate engineering" processes exist, what risks they are associated with and under what circumstances people should use such processes.
Von Seckendorff studied physics and theology in Munich and Hong Kong.
He has been doing his doctorate at the Chair for Systematic Theology and Ethics at the LMU Munich since 2019.
One of his main research areas is technology and environmental ethics and the compatibility of theology, technology and natural sciences.
Technologies in the fight against climate change - all means are allowed
January 12, 2023, 8 p.m. Kolping room, Catholic parish home Ebersberg, Baldestraße 18