Geoengineering, the Anthropocene and the End of Nature
“Climate change is altering social worlds as much as physical environments, not least by changing what we imagine ‘solutions’ to climate change could look like. Baskin offers a penetrating analysis of one of these new ‘climate solutions’: solar geoenginee
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Jeremy Baskin
Geoengineering, the Anthropocene and the End of Nature
Jeremy Baskin
Geoengineering, the Anthropocene and the End of Nature
Jeremy Baskin Melbourne School of Government University of Melbourne Melbourne, Australia
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To Sundhya for her love, friendship and critical advice through six long PhD years. And to Ananya whose presence reminds me daily that it really does matter what world we pass on to our children.
Preface
Solar geoengineering (SGE) is an imagined technology which proposes spraying sulphuric acid aerosols into the stratosphere in order to reflect incoming sunlight back into space and thereby reduce or slow global warming. It does not yet exist as a deployed technology. But it is being actively researched and advocated for, especially in the USA. When I first came across solar geoengineering in the mid-2000s, I was inclined to regard it as both ‘mad’ and ‘bad’. It sounded like a crazily impractical idea seemingly drawn from the realm of science fiction, and embracing the least attractive features of modern techno-science. I soon discovered the idea was being taken extremely seriously, in part because the observed cooling effects following major volcanic eruptions were seen as proof that it could ‘work’. Volcanos. Science fiction. The devastating volcanic eruption at Tambora in 1815 in what is now Indonesia caused global temperatures t
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