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● 20/05/2023

Australian architect and filmmaker Liam Young premieres a new docu-fiction installation, The Great Endeavor (2023), at this year’s Venice Biennale. The piece offers glimpses of a longer forthcoming film that approaches planetary-scale carbon sequestration with radical optimism. Young and consulting scientist Holly Jean Buck turn humanity’s largest engineering project into an infrastructural imaginary, “chronicling the coordinated action to decolonise the atmosphere in our last great act of planetary transformation.”

La Biennale
● 16/05/2023
“This is our generation’s moon landing, a mobilization of workers and resources on a planetary scale that would only be possible through international cooperation to an extent never achieved.”
– Australian architect and filmmaker Liam Young, on humanity meeting the ultimate challenge of atmospheric carbon sequestration in his and consulting scientist Holly Jean Buck’s forthcoming docu-fiction The Great Endeavor (2023)
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● 07/04/2023
“Current mining operations have now become their own geological force, scraping, sorting and collecting more dirt, rock and sediment than the world’s rivers, wind, rain and glaciers every year.”
– Canadian journalist Andrew Nikiforuk, citing British geologist and Extraction to Extinction (2021) author David Howe in a scathing critique of the extractivism-powered “green techno-dream.” If continued, he writes, “the pile of human mined materials on this groaning planet will triple global biomass by 2040.”
The Tyee
● 11/03/2023

“We grow, grow and grow, we’re gonna be alright and this is our show” opens at Dortmund’s Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV), inviting visitors to enter the world of plants, bacteria, fungi, and other non-human organisms we tend to disregard. In their first institutional solo exhibition, curated by Inke Arns, artist duo Jana Kerima Stolzer and Lex Rütten speculate about symbiotic relationships between nature and the technosphere, invoking deep time, geoengineering, the carbon cycle, and immortality.

HMKV
● 17/01/2022
“We therefore call for immediate political action from governments, the United Nations and other actors to prevent the normalisation of solar geoengineering as a climate policy option.”
– 60 policy experts in an open letter published in WIREs Climate Change. The group argues that the injection of sulphur particles into the atmosphere—the most hotly debated plan to cool Earth—could do more harm than good, as deployment “cannot be governed globally in a fair, inclusive and effective manner.”
Phys.org
● 25/03/2021
“While efforts to reduce emissions and adapt to climate impacts are the first line of defence, the United States should develop a transdisciplinary research program to advance understanding of solar geoengineering’s technical feasibility and effectiveness.”
– The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering. and Medicine (NASEM), recommending federal research into climate intervention strategies in a new report
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● 09/02/2021
“We can experiment with scenarios and discuss them at a level that we couldn’t 50 years ago. But our models for governing are still what we had 50 years ago.”
– Geographer, researcher, and After Geoengineering author Holly Jean Buck, on the challenges of enacting large-scale climate interventions globally and democratically in a roundtable discussion hosted by Elizabeth Kolbert
Document Journal
● 07/01/2020
“What if we had nationalized fossil fuel companies and started transforming them to be carbon storage companies whose function is not to produce more fossil fuels, but to put carbon back underground?”
– Geographer, environmental scientist, and After Geoengineering (2019) author Holly Jean Buck, on how the crisis of capitalism fuelled bias against (much needed) technological solutions to the climate crisis
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