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...This talk was an open challenge, an opportunity to respond,” said Krishanu Saha, a post-doctoral student at MIT. But he added that Beck acknowledged that the solutions he brought to the table were too “shallow” to be effective...

Author: By Natasha S. Whitney, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: German Sociology Professor Discusses Global Warming | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

...Beck said he thinks the threat of climate change is sufficiently “irreversible” and “catastrophic” to lead to resolutions among “different parties, nations, religions, friends, and foes...

Author: By Natasha S. Whitney, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: German Sociology Professor Discusses Global Warming | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

...destruction and disaster are anticipated, they can be used as a compulsion to act,” Beck said. “[Catastrophe] shakes [people] up out of their indifference, creating a public sphere of action based on community...

Author: By Natasha S. Whitney, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: German Sociology Professor Discusses Global Warming | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

...Beck told the packed crowd in Tsai that these three crises could lead to a positive shift in the way nations interact with each other...

Author: By Natasha S. Whitney, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: German Sociology Professor Discusses Global Warming | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

...Beck defined a “cosmopolitan moment” as a moment when certain risks are so extreme that the “state of normalcy and the state of emergency overlap” and the time is ripe for transnational collaboration...

Author: By Natasha S. Whitney, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: German Sociology Professor Discusses Global Warming | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

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