Earthmasters

Earthmasters

by Clive Hamilton
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 01/03/2013

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'As we collectively contemplate upping the ante on the same arrogant logic that created the climate crisis, we could ask for no wiser nor more trustworthy guide than Clive Hamilton. A dazzling, multilayered exploration of the strange and terrifying world of geoengineering.' - Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine


While Washington, London and Canberra fiddle, the planet burns. It has become painfully clear that the big democracies won't take the hard decisions to halt climate change. Climate scientists now expect the worst, and they're considering a response which sounds like science fiction: climate engineering.


This means large-scale manipulation of the Earth's climate using grand technological interventions, like spraying sulphur compounds into the upper atmosphere to reduce the amount of sunlight reaching the planet, or transforming the chemistry of the world's oceans so they soak up more carbon. The potential risks are enormous: disrupting the food chain, damaging the ozone layer, the loss of monsoon rains in Asia - the list goes on. It is messing with nature on a scale we've never before seen, and it's attracting a flood of interest from scientists, venture capitalists and oil companies.


We have reached the end of the epoch of climate stability that allowed human civilisation to flourish, and the end of the era of 'progress'. Like an angry beast woken from a long slumber, climate instability is dangerous and resists efforts to control it. In his characteristically lucid and passionate style, Clive Hamilton spells out the implications for all of us.


'I am in awe of what Clive Hamilton has done in Earthmasters.' - James Gustave Speth, author of Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment

ISBN:
9781743433850
9781743433850
Category:
Climate change
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
01-03-2013
Language:
English
Publisher:
ALLEN & UNWIN
Clive Hamilton

Clive Hamilton AM is an Australian author and public intellectual.

His books include Growth Fetish, Silencing Dissent (with Sarah Maddison) and What Do We Want: The Story of Protest in Australia. He was for 14 years the executive director of The Australia Institute, a think tank he founded. For some years he has been professor of public ethics at Charles Sturt University in Canberra.

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