Antarctica. Fascinatingly fragile ecosystem
Evening lecture by Mettingen marine biologist Hanna Michel

How much can we benefit from a view that goes far beyond our familiar everyday world? And to what extent are our individual, everyday actions linked to what takes place very far away from us? Hanna Michel lives these questions in her (professional) everyday life almost every day: the marine biologist, born in Mettingen, accompanies expeditions to Antarctica as a travel guide and lecturer – the continent covered with a mighty ice sheet, which is one of the coldest regions on earth and at the same time an important habitat for biodiversity. Michel has traveled to this fascinating and inhospitable world more than thirty times.

Antarctica is considered the largest nature reserve on earth. At the end of the 1990s, an international environmental protection agreement was agreed to protect this unique ecosystem (for the time being) for 50 years from encroachment, especially the mining of raw materials. However, pollution and climate change have also arrived there. Hanna Michel shares her experiences of the world there, her fascination with the Antarctic landscape and wildlife, and the challenges of protecting this fragile ecosystem. What threats arise from climate change? Which from the interests of wanting to exploit the resources of this habitat economically?

Hanna Michel's lecture is a warm invitation to continue the discussion on sustainability following the project THE STATE OF AFFAIRS?. Central questions, such as how we can (out–)live in the age of rapid climate change and what perspectives are needed to re–evaluate the relationship between humans and the environment, continue to be on the agenda of Draiflessen and accompany the work of the house beyond individual projects.

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