The planet remade : how geoengineering could change the world
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The planet remade : how geoengineering could change the world
Princeton University Press, 2016, c2015
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 393-414) and index
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内容説明
The risks of global warming are pressing and potentially vast. The difficulty of doing without fossil fuels is daunting, possibly even insurmountable. So there is an urgent need to rethink our responses to the crisis. To meet that need, a small but increasingly influential group of scientists is exploring proposals for planned human intervention in the climate system: a stratospheric veil against the sun, the cultivation of photosynthetic plankton, fleets of unmanned ships seeding the clouds. These are the technologies of geoengineering--and as Oliver Morton argues in this visionary book, it would be as irresponsible to ignore them as it would be foolish to see them as a simple solution to the problem. The Planet Remade explores the history, politics, and cutting-edge science of geoengineering. Morton weighs both the promise and perils of these controversial strategies and puts them in the broadest possible context. The past century's changes to the planet--to the clouds and the soils, to the winds and the seas, to the great cycles of nitrogen and carbon--have been far more profound than most of us realize.
Appreciating those changes clarifies not just the scale of what needs to be done about global warming, but also our relationship to nature. Climate change is not just one of the twenty-first century's defining political challenges. Morton untangles the implications of our failure to meet the challenge of climate change and reintroduces the hope that we might. He addresses the deep fear that comes with seeing humans as a force of nature, and asks what it might mean--and what it might require of us--to try and use that force for good.
目次
Introduction: Two Questions 1 Climate Risks and Responsibilities 5 The Second Fossil-Fuel Century 8 Altering the Earthsystem 22 Deliberate Planets, Imagined Worlds 26 Part One: Energies 1 The Top of the World 35 Discovering the Stratosphere 38 Fallout 43 The Ozone Layer 47 The Veilmakers 54 2 A Planet Called Weather 57 The Worldfalls 62 The Trenberth Diagram and Climate Science 66 Steam Engines and Spaceship Earth 71 3 Pinatubo 83 Volcanoes and Climate 86 Predictions and Surprises 93 4 Dimming the Noontime Sun 100 Rough Magic 107 Promethean Science 112 5 Coming to Think This Way 124 Martians and Moral Equivalents 129 The Day Before Yesterday 135 The Rise of Carbon Dioxide Politics 139 6 Moving the Goalposts 148 From Plan B to Breathing Space 156 Expanding the Boundaries 165 Part Two: Substances 7 Nitrogen 175 The Making of the Population Bomb 184 Defusing the Population Bomb 189 Far from Fixed 195 How to Spot a Geoengineer 201 8 Carbon Past, Carbon Present 209 The Anthropocene 219 The Greening Planet 229 9 Carbon Present, Carbon Future 243 Ocean Anaemia 251 Cultivating One's Garden 259 10 Sulphur and Soggy Mirrors 268 Global Cooling 274 Cloudships 283 Bright Patchwork Planet 288 What the Thunder Didn't Say 298 Part Three: Possibilities 11 The Ends of the World 305 Control and Catastrophe 312 Doom and Denial 317 The Traditions of Titans 323 A Tale of Two Cliques 332 After Such Knowledge 338 12 The Deliberate Planet 344 The Concert 347 Small Effects, and Bad Ones 359 And Straight on 'til Morning 369 Envoi 375 Acknowledgements 379 References, Notes and Further Reading 383 Bibliography 393 Index 415
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