Tim Killeen: A Perfect Storm in the Amazon Wilderness: Success and Failure in the Fight to Save an Ecosystem of Critical Importance to the Planet (December 5, 2024)

Tim Killeen, author, Museo de Historia Natural Noel Kempff Mercado

The Amazon Forest is in jeopardy.  Macroeconomic approaches designed to transform commodity supply chains have failed to change human behavior, while governance reforms are being undermined by inequality, illegality and corruption.  Indigenous people fight to save their territories, but they are outnumbered by fellow citizens pursuing extractive production systems. Deforestation and climate change threaten to push the biome past an ecological tipping point.  Tim Killeen will provide a lucid narrative of the social and economic forces driving conventional development, as well as a critical review of policies designed to change that trajectory towards a more sustainable future.

Presented in partnership with the Anthropology Department.