Imagining Climate Engineering: Dreaming of the Designer Climate

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Abstract

This book highlights the increasing attention for climate engineering, a set of speculative technologies aimed to counter global warming. What is the future of the global climate? And who gets to decide—or even design—this future?

Imagining Climate Engineering explores how and why climate engineering became a potential approach to anthropogenic climate change. Specifically, it showcases how views on the future of climate engineering by addressing the ways in which climate engineers view its respective physical, political, and moral domains. Tracing the intellectual and political history of dreams to control the weather and climate as well as the discovery of climate change, Jeroen Oomen examines the imaginative parameters within which contemporary climate engineering research takes place. Introducing the analytical metaphor ‘ways of seeing’ to describe explicit or implicit visions, understandings, and foci that facilitate a particular understanding of what is at stake, Imagining Climate Engineering shows how visions on the knowability of climate tie into moral and political convictions about the possibility and desirability of engineering the climate.

Marrying science and technology studies and the environmental humanities, Oomen provides crucial insights for the future of the climate change debate for scholars and students.
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationLondon
PublisherRoutledge
Number of pages232
Edition1
ISBN (Electronic)9781003043553
ISBN (Print)9780367489311
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 3 May 2021

Keywords

  • Geoengineering
  • Climate engineering
  • STS
  • Climate Change
  • Sociotechnical Imaginaries
  • sociology of science
  • History of science

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