Geoengineering, persuasion, and the climate crisis : a geologic rhetoric /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pflugfelder, Ehren Helmut, 1979- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2023].
Series:Rhetoric, culture, and social critique.
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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.