Poster's note : around a dozen references to geoengineering in this work

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=IKthCQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=geoengineering&f=true

>From publisher's website :

The Anthropocene and the Global Environmental Crisis
Rethinking modernity in a new epoch
Edited by Clive Hamilton, François Gemenne, Christophe Bonneuil

Routledge – 2015 – 188 pages

Series: Routledge Environmental Humanities

Paperback: $49.95
978-1-13-882124-8
May 13th 2015
Hardback: $145.00
978-1-13-882123-1
May 21st 2015

The Anthropocene, in which humankind has become a geological force, is a
major scientific proposal; but it also means that the conceptions of the
natural and social worlds on which sociology, political science, history,
law, economics and philosophy rest are called into question.

The Anthropocene and the Global Environmental Crisis captures some of the
radical new thinking prompted by the arrival of the Anthropocene and opens
up the social sciences and humanities to the profound meaning of the new
geological epoch, the ‘Age of Humans’. Drawing on the expertise of
world-recognised scholars and thought-provoking intellectuals, the book
explores the challenges and difficult questions posed by the convergence of
geological and human history to the foundational ideas of modern social
science.

If in the Anthropocene humans have become a force of nature, changing the
functioning of the Earth system as volcanism and glacial cycles do, then it
means the end of the idea of nature as no more than the inert backdrop to
the drama of human affairs. It means the end of the ‘social-only’
understanding of human history and agency. These pillars of modernity are
now destabilised. The scale and pace of the shifts occurring on Earth are
beyond human experience and expose the anachronisms of ‘Holocene thinking’.
The book explores what kinds of narratives are emerging around the
scientific idea of the new geological epoch, and what it means for the
‘politics of unsustainability’.

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