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The Dawn of the Age of Climate Engineering
Oxford University Press
April 2014
On Sale: March 25, 2014
264 pages
ISBN: 030020521X
EAN: 9780300205213
Kindle: B00BFCDM0C
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Non-Fiction
This book goes to the heart of the unfolding reality of the
twenty-first century: international efforts to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions have all failed, and before the end
of the century Earth is projected to be warmer than it has
been for 15 million years. The question “can the crisis be
avoided?” has been superseded by a more frightening one,
“what can be done to prevent the devastation of the living
world?” And the disturbing answer, now under wide discussion
both within and outside the scientific community, is to
seize control of the very climate of the Earth itself.
Clive Hamilton begins by exploring the range of technologies
now being developed in the field of geoengineering--the
intentional, enduring, large-scale manipulation of Earth’s
climate system. He lays out the arguments for and against
climate engineering, and reveals the extent of vested
interests linking researchers, venture capitalists, and
corporations. He then examines what it means for human
beings to be making plans to control the planet’s
atmosphere, probes the uneasiness we feel with the notion of
exercising technological mastery over nature, and challenges
the ways we think about ourselves and our place in the
natural world.
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