Book Seminar at Score
The First and Last Bank: Currency, Climate Change, and a New Carbon Commons
Seeing currency as a powerful tool for collective action, The First and Last Bank argues that dovetailing developments in digital currencies and the biosequestration of carbon have, together, made a new and radical intervention in the climate battle possible: a nonproprietary currency backed by sequestered carbon. This new currency would be managed via Wikipedia-style open-source policies that privilege sustainability and equity over endless growth and pollution. Because it is backed by sequestered carbon, the use of the currency would draw gaseous carbon out of the atmosphere and push it back into the ground, following the exact same trajectory as gold during the era of the international gold standard. While it is no silver bullet, such a currency would act as a necessary complement to wide-scale mitigation efforts, at the same time engaging ordinary citizens in the fight to reduce the dangerous levels of carbon in our atmosphere.
Discussants:
Kevin Noone, Professor Emeritus of Chemical Meteorology at the Department of Environmental Science (ACES) at Stockholm University.
Linda Soneryd, Professor of Sociology at Örebro University. Researcher and research director at Score.
The seminar will be held in English.
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