Geoengineering, the Anthropocene and the End of Nature

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- About the Author -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1: Introduction -- The Basic Idea of Solar Geoengineering -- Imagining Solar Geoengineering -- Technoscience and the Sociotechnical -- Historical Precursors -- Knowledge-Power-Values -- 'Official' Assessments and Knowledge-Brokers -- Outline of This Book -- References -- 2: Geoengineering's Past: From Mastery to Taboo -- Geoengineering's First Wave: Mastery -- Technophilia, Hubris and the Early Cold War -- Geological Engineering and Climate Modification -- Tempering Hubris -- Retreating from the Era of Mastery -- Geoengineering's Hiatus -- The 1970s and Challenges to the Mastery Narrative -- Attempts at Post-Cold War Revival -- Why Attempts to Revive SGE Failed -- Shifting Imaginaries of Climate, Nature and Globalisation -- Changing Climate Science -- Détente and Environmentalism -- Globalisation and Universalist Discourses -- References -- 3: The Re-emergence of Solar Geoengineering -- Climate Urgency and Emergency -- Geoengineering's Re-emergence -- The 2004 Tyndall Centre Gathering -- Crutzen and the Lifting of the Taboo -- The NASA Workshop -- Respectable but Not Embraced -- Rationales -- Climate Emergency -- Risk Reduction -- Alternate Climate Policy -- Frames and Metaphors -- Representations -- An Inability to Normalise -- References -- 4: Competing Imaginaries of Solar Geoengineering -- Un-Natural: The Perils and Injustice of Geopiracy -- Imperial: Acclimatising the World -- Market: A Techno-Fix to Enable Business-as-Usual -- Geo-management: Taking Charge of the Climate Crisis -- Salvation: Saving the World from Climate Risk -- Chemtrails: Secret Elites Poisoning the World -- Convergences and Divergences in the Imaginaries -- A Sociotechnical Imaginary Struggling to Be Born.