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Geoengineering, the Anthropocene and the End of Nature

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Authors:
  1. Jeremy Baskin

    1. Melbourne School of Government, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

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  • Discusses the past, present and future of geoengineering
  • Examines the potential of solar geoengineering to address climate change
  • Explores three competing imaginaries associated with geoengineering

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Jeremy Baskin
    Pages 1-26

  3. Geoengineering’s Past: From Mastery to Taboo

    • Jeremy Baskin
    Pages 27-73

  4. The Re-emergence of Solar Geoengineering

    • Jeremy Baskin
    Pages 75-121

  5. Competing Imaginaries of Solar Geoengineering

    • Jeremy Baskin
    Pages 123-161

  6. Knowledge-Power-Values

    • Jeremy Baskin
    Pages 163-211

  7. Future Imaginings

    • Jeremy Baskin
    Pages 213-239

  8. Conclusion

    • Jeremy Baskin
    Pages 241-265

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 267-271
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About this book

This book takes a critical look at solar geoengineering as an acceptable means for addressing climate change. Baskin explores the assumptions and imaginaries which animate ‘engineering the climate’ and discusses why this climate solution is so controversial. The book explains geoengineering’s past, its revival in the mid-2000s, and its future prospects including its shadow presence in the Paris climate accord. The main focus however is on dissecting solar geoengineering today – its rationales, underpinning knowledge, relationship to power, and the stance towards nature which accompanies it. Baskin explores three competing imaginaries associated with geoengineering: an Imperial imaginary, an oppositional Un-Natural imaginary, and a conspiratorial Chemtrail imaginary. He seeks to explain why solar geoengineering has struggled to gain approval and why resistance to it persists, despite the support of several powerful actors. He provocatively suggests that reconceptualising our present as the Anthropocene might unwittingly facilitate the normalisation of geoengineering by providing a sustaining socio-technical imaginary. This book is essential reading for those interested in climate policy, political ecology, and science & technology studies.



Authors and Affiliations

  • Melbourne School of Government, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

    Jeremy Baskin

About the author

Jeremy Baskin is a senior research fellow at the School of Government of the University of Melbourne, Australia.  His current work focuses on geoengineering and climate policy, on the Anthropocene and global justice, and on the role of experts and expertise as it relates to environmental policy.

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