EcoTechResponse-SophiaCC, TannerM, AndrewW
- Project Title, creator/artists, date, location
- Brief Description
- Scientists at the Max Planck Institute in Germany have discovered a way to increase the CO2 consumption of plants from 5-10 molecules per second to 80.
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- What are the key questions/issues the project is addressing? (i.e. concept)
- Pollution is bad. Carbon Dioxide is part of pollution. How do we absorb more Carbon Dioxide.
- Why are these important questions/issues?
- Because excessive pollution and the buildup of greenhouse gases are one of the leading global concerns in the 21st century. Excessive pollution could endanger human life or if it reaches a critical point planetary existence.
- How does the projects address the questions/issues? In their words, what does the project add to human culture? How does it contribute to human meaning? community? Ecosystems?
- The team of biologists have identified certain enzymes that, if fiddled with, greatly increase the plant’s CO2 consumption. Their experiments have shown an increase from 5 to 10 molecules per second to upwards of 80 molecules per second. The hope for the project is that if this is effective, we could make forests and city greenery more effective in the effort to combat climate change.
- Which ecological issues does the project raise/solve?
- It seeks to solve one of the largest contributing problems to global pollution.
- Does the project respond superficially (it just raises the issue for us to think about) vs deeply (it pushes us to engage with the issue and/or take action).
- The project is ongoing research with manipulating these enzymes in the hope of slowing, if not reversing, climate change, so I would say it responds to the problem of climate change in a deep manner.
- What design decisions were used to support the project intention? Does the design fit the concept
- Seeing as the concept of the project was to make plants more effective in consuming CO2, and that is what the group is developing, I would say that the design fits the concept.
- What kind of technology does the project use? Does the technology support the intent or does it create tension with the intent
- The project utilizes genetic engineering to manipulate the enzymes present in the plants which I am unable to see how it would do anything other than support the intent.
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