Main entry:

Buck, Holly Jean, 1981- author.

Title & Author:

After geoengineering : climate tragedy, repair, and restoration / Holly Jean Buck.

Publication:

London ; New York : Verso, 2019.
©2019

Description:

vi, 281 pages : illustration ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-268) and index.
Introduction: Desperation point -- Part one. Cultivation. Cultivating energy -- ( Flowers) -- Cultivating the seas -- ( Ghost bar) -- Regenerating -- Part two. Burial. Capturing -- ( Pecan tree) -- Weathering -- ( Mountain) -- Part three. The after-zero society. Working -- Learning -- Co-opting -- Part four. Buying time. Programming -- Reckoning.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

Geoengineering is assumed to be on the side of industrial agriculture, inequality and ecomodernism, in opposition to degrowth, renewable energy, sustainable agriculture and climate justice. Buck rejects this binary, to ask: what if the people seized the means of climate production? Both critical and utopian, the book examines the possible futures after geoengineering. Rejecting the idea that geoengineering is some kind of easy work-around, Buck outlines the kind of social transformation that would be necessary to enact a program of geoengineering in the first place.

ISBN:

9781788730365 (hardback)
1788730364 (hardback)

Subject:

Environmental geotechnology.
Climate change mitigation.
Géotechnique de l'environnement.
Climat Changements Atténuation.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 307226
Call No.: BIB 252716
Notes: Project: New Society
Status: Available