Tomorrow’s diet: Food from the laboratory

This is a chapter of the virtual exhibition “Welcome to the Anthropocene: The Earth in Our Hands”—written and curated by historian Nina Möllers.

Welcome to the Anthropocene: The Earth in Our Hands

Together with the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, the Deutsches Museum hosted a major special exhibition on the Anthropocene from December 2014 – September 2016, which was curated by Nina Möllers. Coined by the atmospheric chemist and Nobel Prize laureate Paul J. Crutzen, the term “Anthropocene” describes the idea of a new geological era shaped by deep interventions into nature by humans as biological and geological agents.

Nina Möllers

About the author

Möllers, Nina

Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU Munich, Germany

Dr. Nina Möllers is head curator and project manager of the special exhibition “Welcome to the Anthropocene: The Earth in Our Hands.” She studied in Palo Alto, Tübingen, and Nashville, Tennessee and received her PhD in 2007 with a dissertation on “Creoles of Color in New Orleans.”

As part of a post-doc project at the Deutsches Museum she curated a special exhibition on the history of energy consumption in private households. Her publications include the exhibition catalogs Kabelsalat: Energiekonsum im Haushalt (2012) and Willkommen im Anthropozän: Unsere Verantwortung für die Zukunft der Erde (2015).

She is grateful to Josephine Musil-Gutsch, Vanessa Osganian, Brenda Black, Helmuth Trischler, Iris Trautmann, Eliza Encheva, and Dorothea Föcking for their collaboration on this digital companion exhibition.

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Tree Replacement at the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Park

The Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Park has experienced an infestation of emerald ash borer beetles. In October 2010 the National Park Service began for a tree replacement program to revitalize the park.

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Environmental Knowledge

Landscape Transformation

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United States

Missouri

St. Louis

DDT: An Unforeseen Truth

Discovered as an insecticide by Swiss chemist Paul Hermann Müller in 1939, DDT is used to fight typhus and malaria during WWII; it is approved for public insecticide use by the FDA in 1945.

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Environmental Politics

Pollution

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North America

Bees in America: How the Honey Bee Shaped a Nation

A cultural history of bees and beekeeping in the United States.

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The Great Gypsy Moth War: The History of the First Campaign in Massachusetts to Eradicate the Gypsy Moth, 1890-1901

The untold story behind the importation and release of the gypsy moth in North America.

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"Urban Trees and Urban Environmental History in a Latin American City: Belo Horizonte, 1897–1964"

Regina Horta Duarte uses the unannounced leveling of 350 Ficus benjamina along the principal avenue of Belo Horizonte, Brazil in November 1963 as the starting point for discussing the relationship between nature and society in Latin American urban environments.