Thesis / Dissertation

Geoengineering, the Anthropocene and the End of Nature

Jeremy Baskin

Published : 2019

Abstract

“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 geoengineering. He makes very clear that at the centre of this new socio-technical imaginary lie questions of knowledge, values and power... Solar geoengineering technologies ask questions about what it means to be human, what type of world we are, and should be, making. Read this impressive book before others take ownership of your future.” - Mike Hulme, Professor of Human Geography, University of Cambridge, UK “Baskin demonstrates why solar geoengin..

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