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Vishal Sharma

Vishal Sharma is a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Interactive Computing and a graduate fellow at the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He investigates the design of digital technologies for enabling sustainable and just futures. [email protected]


There is no plan(et) B: On sustainability and HCI

Posted: Mon, December 23, 2024 - 12:04:00

There is no question that the impacts of climate change are being felt around the world: extreme weather events, biodiversity loss, record heat waves, forest fires, failing crops, the thinnest level of winter ice in the Antarctic. Yet, despite legally binding commitments to cut emissions and not meeting them being business-as-usual, global change has been disappointingly slow. The 1.5-degree goal,…