New Horizons in Science

This past summer, nearly 100,000 square kilometers of land went up in flames in the Australian bushfires—a fire event larger than any in the past 10,000 years on that continent. The devastation released some 400 million tons of CO2, killed perhaps a billion animals, and damaged many Aboriginal Australian communities.

Benjamin's lecture will be based on her new book, Race After Technology, with examples related to biomedicine and COVID-19. Details TBA.

For decades, Americans have been divided along party lines over how to deal with climate change. Mass media coverage, framed in many cases along an “information deficit” model that has been repeatedly shown incorrect, has often unintentionally exacerbated the divide.

Yet there is more common ground than we realize. Recent polls have found that most Republicans understand that climate change is happening, for example, and a majority of conservatives under age 40 voice interest in taking action.