Dutch Wednesday Bas Haring Plastic Pandas

On 7 November 2012 the final installment of the Netherlands Institute in SaintPetersburg s Dutch Wednesday events of 2012 saw Bas Haring deliver the lecture Plastic Pandas at the Tkachi creative space. Critically evaluating the importance of biodiversity and the arguments used in favour of protecting it, Haring casts doubt on the convential wisdom that biodiversity should be preserved at all costs, in the process raising profound questions about humanity s role in nature