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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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...