EAN: 9780691175904

PLANET REMADE - OLIVER MORTON KARTONIERT (TB)

The risks of global warming are pressing and potentially vast. There is an urgent need to
rethink our response to the crisis. To meet that need  a small but increasingly influential
group of scientists is exploring proposals for planned human intervention in the climate system
including a stratospheric veil against the sun  the cultivation of photosynthetic plankton  and
fleets of unmanned ships seeding the clouds. These are the technologies of geoengineering and 
as Oliver Morton argues in The Planet Remade  it would be as irresponsible to ignore them as it
would be foolish to see them as a simple solution to the problem. Morton explores the history 
politics  and cutting-edge science of geoengineering and weighs the promise and perils of these
controversial strategies. He addresses the deep fear that comes with seeing humans as a force
of nature  and asks what it might mean - and what it might require of us - to try to use that
force for good.

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