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Source: Alfred Wegener, Tagebücher, June 1906 – August 1908. DMA NL 001/004.

Source: Alfred Wegener, Tagebücher, June 1906 – August 1908. DMA NL 001/004.

Source: Alfred Wegener, Tagebücher, June 1906 – August 1908. DMA NL 001/004.

Source: Alfred Wegener, Tagebücher, June 1906 – August 1908. DMA NL 001/004.

Source: Alfred Wegener, Tagebücher, June 1906 – August 1908. DMA NL 001/005.

This is a portrait of an environmental migrant from the Sundarbans, West Bengal, who, like thousands before her, is vulnerable and powerless against the fury of the sea.

Using the controversy over copyright on the internet as a case study and the history of the environmental movement as a comparison, this article offers a couple of modest proposals about what a politics of intellectual property might look like.

This is a selection of the original diary entries of German explorer Alfred Wegener’s last Greenland expedition in 1930 and is part of the virtual exhibition “The Wegener Diaries - Scientific Expeditions into the Eternal Ice” authored by historian Christian Kehrt.

Source: Alfred Wegener, Tagebücher, June 1912 – July 1913. DMA NL 001/008.

Source: Alfred Wegener, Tagebücher, June 1912 – July 1913. DMA NL 001/008.