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  title info:
    title: Geoengineering, persuasion, and the climate crisis
    sub title: a geologic rhetoric
  name:
    name part: Pflugfelder, Ehren Helmut
    name part: 1979-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: alu
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 243 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: This work exposes the deeply worrying state of discourse over geoengineering-the intentional manipulation of the earth's climate as means to halt or reverse global warming. These climate-altering projects, which range from cloud-whitening to carbon dioxide removal and from stratospheric aerosol injection to enhanced weathering, are all technological solutions to more complex geosocial problems. Geoengineering represents one of the most alarming forms of deliberative discourse in the twenty-first century. Yet geoengineering could easily generate as much harm as the environmental traumas it seeks to cure. Complicating these deliberations is the scarcity of public discussion. Most deliberations transpire within policy groups, behind the closed doors of climate-oriented startups, between subject-matter experts at scientific conferences, or in the disciplinary jargon of research journals. Further, much of this conversation occurs primarily in the West. Ehren Helmut Pflugfelder makes clear how the deliberative rhetorical strategies coming from geoengineering advocates have been largely deceptive, hegemonic, deterministic and exploitative. In this volume, he investigates how geoengineering proponents marshal geologic actors into their arguments and how current discourse could lead to a greater exploitation of the earth in the future. Pflugfelder's goal is to understand the structure, content, purpose and effect of these discourses, raise the alarm about their deliberative directions, and help us rethink our approach to the climate. In highlighting both the inherent problems of the discourses and the ways geologic rhetoric can be made productive, he attempts to give "the geologic" a place at the table to better understand the roles that all earth systems continue to play in our lives, now and for years to come.
  table of contents: Introduction: Geoengineering and persuasion -- A geologic rhetoric -- CO2 and stasis -- Geoengineering risk -- Rogue geoengineering -- Homo faber -- Geologic violence -- Conclusion : A cautious hexis.
  note: Ehren Helmut Pflugfelder.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Environmental geotechnology
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Communication in engineering
  subject:
    topic: Communication in geology
  subject:
    topic: Communication in the environmental sciences
  subject:
    topic: Persuasion (Rhetoric)
  classification: TD171.9 .P55 2023
  classification: 628
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Rhetoric, culture, and social critique
  identifier: 9780817321420
  identifier: 081732142X
  identifier: 9780817394240
  identifier: 2022021291
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 220827
    record change date: 20230213143408.0
    record identifier: in00004645818