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Sarah Evanega, Ph.D., shares examples of how the tools of agricultural biotechnology are being employed to help address climate change and its associated urgent challenges. She explores how access to biotechnologies addresses injustices and other social problems in countries like Bangladesh, discusses how applications of biotechnology may help lessen agriculture’s carbon emissions and other deleterious environmental impacts, and explores how denying evidence-based GMO science challenges a liberal worldview and obfuscates shared values around achieving justice for the poor. Dr. Evanega serves as senior associate director of international programs in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and holds an adjunct appointment in the Section of Plant Breeding and Genetics in the Integrative School of Plant Sciences at Cornell University.

About the Initiative

The McDevitt Center’s initiative devoted to Sustaining Earth is motivated by our sense of the urgency of the growing threats to our environment and by our conviction that a full understanding of these threats and effective responses to them must draw upon both scientific and broadly religious insights and perspectives. Through the public events in this initiative, we aim to provide a wide audience of students, faculty and members of the regional community with accurate and up-to-date information about the threats, their causes and measures to meet these threats. We also seek to ground and frame these issues within the context of broadly religious perspectives on our human relation to the environment and our ethical obligations to care for it – all with the intention of helping to foster informed and concerted action to sustain the earth.

This event is free and open to the public. It is sponsored by the McDevitt Center. For more information, contact the McDevitt Cetner at [email protected] or (315) 445-6200.