After geoengineering : climate tragedy, repair, and restoration
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Published
London ; Verso, 2019.
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Book
ISBN
9781788730365, 1788730364
Physical Desc
vi, 281 pages : 1 illustration ; 24 cm
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Providence Public - Level 1 Book Stacks
363.7387 B922 2019
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Published
London ; Verso, 2019.
Language
English
ISBN
9781788730365, 1788730364

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Includes bibliographical references (pages [254]-268) and index.
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What if the people seized the means of climate production' Climate engineering is a dystopian project. But as the human species hurtles ever faster towards its own extinction, geoengineering as a temporary fix, to buy time for carbon removal, is a seductive idea. We are right to fear that geoengineering will be used to maintain the status quo, but is there another possible future after geoengineering? Can these technologies and practices be used as technologies of repair, to bring carbon levels back down to pre-industrial levels? Are there possibilities for massive intentional intervention in the climate that are democratic, decentralized, or participatory? Is there a scenario where the people can define and enact geoengineering on our own terms? These questions are provocative, because they go against a binary that has become common sense: geoengineering is assumed to be on the side of industrial agriculture, inequality and ecomodernism, in opposition to degrowth, renewable energy, sustainable agriculture and climate justice. After Geoengineering rejects this binary, to ask: what if the people seized the means of climate production? Both critical and utopian, the book examines the possible futures after geoengineering. Rejecting the idea that geoengineering is some kind of easy work-around, Holly Buck outlines the kind of social transformation that would be necessary to enact a program of geoengineering in the first place.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Buck, H. J. (2019). After geoengineering: climate tragedy, repair, and restoration . Verso.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Buck, Holly Jean, 1981-. 2019. After Geoengineering: Climate Tragedy, Repair, and Restoration. Verso.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Buck, Holly Jean, 1981-. After Geoengineering: Climate Tragedy, Repair, and Restoration Verso, 2019.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Buck, Holly Jean. After Geoengineering: Climate Tragedy, Repair, and Restoration Verso, 2019.

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