New book: Has It Come to This: Promises and Perils of Geoengineering on the Brink

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Dear all,

Of interest to some, a book I co-edited with Holly Jean Buck and Andreas Malm is coming out on November 13 with Rutgers University Press. It provides critical views of the many geoengineering approches that are proposed to address the climate crisis.

https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/has-it-come-to-this/9781978809352

Has It Come to This: Promises and Perils of Geoengineering on the Brink

Geoengineering is the deliberate and large-scale intervention in the Earth's climate system in an attempt to mitigate the adverse effects of global warming. Now that climate emergency is upon us, claims that geoengineering is inevitable are rapidly proliferating. How did we get into this situation where the most extreme path now seems a plausible development? Is it an accurate representation of where we are at? Who is this “we” who is talking? What options make it onto the table? Which are left out? Whom does geoengineering serve? Why is the ensemble of projects that goes by that name so salient, even though the community of researchers and advocates is remarkably small? These are some of the questions that the thinkers contributing to this volume are exploring from perspectives ranging from sociology and geography to ethics and Indigenous studies. The editors set out this diverse collection of voices not as a monolithic, unified take on geoengineering, but as a place where creative thinkers, students, and interested environmental and social justice advocates can explore nuanced ideas in more than 240 characters.

The following discount codes make it almost affordable: USA: "RFLR19"; Canada: "RUTGERS20"; Rest of the world: "RutFriendsFamily"

Table of contents below.

Thanks,

JP

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Table of Contents

Introduction
 

1. Critical perspectives on geoengineering: A dialogue
        Holly Jean Buck, J. P. Sapinski and Andreas Malm

 
Contesting geoengineering: Power, justice, and civil society
 

1. Winning hearts and minds? Explaining the rise of the geoengineering idea
        Ina Möller
2. Carbon unicorns and fossil futures: Whose emission reduction pathways is the IPCC performing?
        Wim Carton
3. Defending a failed status quo: The case against geoengineering from a civil society perspective
        Lili Fuhr and Linda Schneider
4. Geoengineering and Indigenous Climate Justice: A conversation with Kyle Powys Whyte
        Kyle Powys Whyte and Holly Jean Buck
5. The injustice in geoengineering: Restorative climate justice and justice as recognition
        Duncan McLaren
6. An intersectional analysis of geoengineering: Overlapping oppressions and the demand for ecological citizenship
        Tina Sikka

 
State power, economic planning, and geoengineering
 

1. Mobilizing in a climate shock: Geoengineering or accelerated energy transition?
        Laurence L. Delina
2. A left defense of carbon dioxide removal: The state must be forced to deploy civilization saving technology
        Christian Parenti
3. Planning the planet: Geoengineering our way out of and back into a planned economy
        Andreas Malm
4. Provisioning climate: An infrastructural approach to geoengineering
        Anne Pasek

 
Geoengineering: a class project in the face of systemic crisis?
 

1. Geoengineering and imperialism
        Richard York
2. Gramsci in the stratosphere: Solar engineering and capitalist hegemony
        Kevin Surprise
3. Promises of climate engineering after neoliberalism
        Nils Markusson, David Tyfield, Jennie Stephens and Mads Dahl Gjefsen
4. Prospects of climate engineering in a post-truth era
        Holly Jean Buck

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Jean Philippe Sapinski
Professeur adjoint (assistant professor)
Maîtrise en études de l'environnement
Université de Moncton
Territoire Mi'kmaq
Nouveau-Brunswick, Canada

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