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The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World

byOliver Morton

Oliver Morton examines geoengineering proposals designed to cool a warming planet by deliberately altering atmospheric or planetary systems. He explains ideas such as reflecting sunlight and removing carbon dioxide, along with their scientific uncertainties, technical limits, political risks, and ethical dilemmas. The book neither promotes a quick technological rescue nor dismisses research into possible emergency tools. Morton asks who could authorize intervention, how harms would be distributed, and whether promises of control might weaken emissions cuts. He offers a measured guide to choices that climate change may make increasingly difficult to avoid.

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Publication date

2017

Format

Print edition

Pages

440

ISBN

9780691175904