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Geoengineering as global climate change policy

Author(s): Luke TW

Published: July, 2010

Publisher: Critical Policy Studies

DOI: 10.1080/19460171.2010.490633

Tags: Politics, Governance

URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19460171.2010.490633

Abstract: The use of hydrocarbon-based energy systems is deeply embedded in the contemporary global capitalist world system. Billions of individuals always are already engaged in an on-going, essentially unplanned, and still uncontrolled (with regard to the negative impact of burning fossil on the global climate) collective experiment in the growing use of these sources of energy. The unanticipated, and yet still long observed, tendency for this energy system, to coincide with atmospheric global warming and other severe climate problems is becoming one of the most interesting developments of the early twenty-first century. In the absence of more effective, comprehensive, and bold efforts to prevent global climate change in a truly sustained manner, many communities around the world, ranging from the smallest localities, city governments, regional authorities, and even nation states are acknowledging that global climate change is a real problem. Yet, there is no consensus about how to mitigate and manage its effects. This study considers to what degree formal geoengineering is being treated as a workable approach to managing climate change. It explores an elaborate discourse trying to judge which high tech intervention might be more likely to succeed at averting, postponing, or merely managing the more destructive implications of climate change. Hence, the article advances a critique of such schemas as something like a 'miracle cure' for global warming.


An Emergent Mangle of Practice: Global Climate Change as Vernacular Geoengineering

Author(s): Luke TW

Published: August, 2009

Publisher: Social Science Research Nwetwork

Tags: Politics

URL: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1450783

Abstract: The use of hydrocarbon-based energy systems is a deeply embedded reality in the contemporary global capitalist world system. Billions of individuals always are already engaged in an on-going, essentially unplanned, and still unknowable experiment (with regard to the negative impact of burning fossil on the global climate) collective experiment in the growing use of these sources of energy. Hence, the unanticipated, and yet still long observed, tendency for this energy system, to coincide with atmospheric global warming and other severe climate problems is becoming one of the most interesting developments of the early twenty-first century. In the absence of more effective, comprehensive, and bold efforts to answer the challenges of global climate change in a truly serious and sustained manner, many communities around the world, ranging from the smallest localities, city governments, regional authorities, and even nation-states are acknowledging that global climate change is real problem by preparing to mitigate and manage its threats. All of these events add up to what Andrew Pickering would identify as “a mangle of practice.” To what degree can vernacular vs. formal geoengineering be regarded as a workable approach to managing climate change? Which we will more likely to succeed at averting, postponing, or merely managing the more destructive implications of climate change in the next generation? In asking such questions, one wonders if non-expert, popular, and unplanned interventions in such mangles of practice are a promising, or even more resilient, approach to global climate change.


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