Events

The Natural History Museum designed a pop-up exhibition to function as a backdrop and stage set for The Foundry Theatre’s Dialogue Series, inspired by Naomi Klein’s book This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs.

In the anthropocene, natural disasters are not natural. Rather, they are trace effects of an industrial and economic system that will—left unimpeded—accelerate climate change and drive Earth toward collapse.

Expedition leaders initiated political discourse and conversation concerning the origin of Big Cypress National Preserve and its designation as a public commons after first being ravaged by the effects of capitalism. The Natural History Museum partnered with the park service to better understand the environmental and political factors influencing the ecological conditions of Big Cypress National Preserve and the Greater Everglades Ecosystem, focusing on oil wells and drilling in the Everglades and Big Cypress.

This panel considers the violent legacies of capitalism’s exploitation and appropriation of nature. It inquires into how views of natural systems as separate from human systems–political, social, and economic–may be part of the problem we face in confronting climate change.