"Smoke from the devastating bushfires in Australia has traveled so high it has reached the stratosphere—the second major layer of Earth's atmosphere. It has also completed a full circuit around the world, arriving back in the skies over the country where it was produced, according to NASA."

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Benner, Ann-Kathrin, Delf Rothe, Sara Ullström, and Johannes Stripple (2019): Violent Climate Imaginaries: Science-Fiction- Politics. Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg. https://ifsh.de/file/publication/Research_Report/191218_IFSH_Research_Report_Web.pdf.

"In their research report, Benner and colleagues study how violent imaginaries of climate change are produced and how they spread in the fields of science, popular culture and politics. Furthermore, they discuss to what extend imaginaries of climate change can exert forms of violence themselves."

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"Our environmental vandalism has made urgent the question of ethical responsibilities across decades and centuries."

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Horton, J. B. (2015): The emergency framing of solar geoengineering: Time for a different approach. In: The Anthropocene Review. DOI: 10.1177/2053019615579922.

"Solar geoengineering has been proposed as a possible response measure in the event of a ‘climate emergency’. Scientific evidence for climate emergencies in the form of tipping points, however, is contested and unsettled."

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