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After geoengineering : climate tragedy, repair, and restoration /

By: Buck, Holly Jean, 1981- [author.].
Publisher: London ; New York : Verso, 2019Description: vi, 281 pages : 1 illustration ; 24 cm.Content type: text | text Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9781788730365; 9781788730365:; 1788730364.Subject(s): Environmental geotechnology | Climate change mitigationDDC classification: 628 BUC
Contents:
Introduction: Desperation Point -- Part I: Cultivation. 1. Cultivating Energy ; Flowers; 2. Cultivating the Seas ; Ghost Bar; 3. Regenerating -- Part II: Burial. 4. Capturing ; Pecan tree ; 5. Weathering ; Mountain -- Part III: The After-Zero Society. 6. Working ; 7. Learning ; 8. Co-opting -- Part IV: Buying Time. 9. Programming ; 10. Reckoning.
Summary: 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? 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. This book asks: what if the people seized the means of climate production? Both critical and utopian, the book examines the possible futures after geoengineering.
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Standard Loan Standard Loan ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection 628 BUC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 0082611
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [254]-268) and index.

Introduction: Desperation Point -- Part I: Cultivation. 1. Cultivating Energy ; Flowers; 2. Cultivating the Seas ; Ghost Bar; 3. Regenerating -- Part II: Burial. 4. Capturing ; Pecan tree ; 5. Weathering ; Mountain -- Part III: The After-Zero Society. 6. Working ; 7. Learning ; 8. Co-opting -- Part IV: Buying Time. 9. Programming ; 10. Reckoning.

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? 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. This book asks: what if the people seized the means of climate production? Both critical and utopian, the book examines the possible futures after geoengineering.

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