When
1 p.m., April 17, 2020
Where
Zoom
Virtual Charlas con Café:
Zoom link: https://arizona.zoom.us/j/577061924
In 2012, a group of Catholic environmental scientists completed six years of longitudinal research on heavy metal contamination caused by mining in Peru’s Mantaro Valley in the Central Andes. This Catholic scientific project formed in relation to national opposition to environmentalism, a powerful mining industry, political corruption and violence, and pervasive suspicion about scientific objectivity. Out of this tense political climate, an alliance between transnational and local Christian organizations, scientific practitioners and institutions, and the region’s Archbishop managed to generate...