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Who's the Sorcerer? Slippery Facts in the Debate on Geoengineering Gabriel Dorthe Abstract: One of the most prominent opponents to geoengineering, especially Solar Radiation Management (SRM), Clive Hamilton, have coined the term «sorcerer apprentices» to capture what he sees as a dangerous lack of responsibility in those projects. The term has been widely adopted since then. Inspired by the classical anthropologist Jeanne Favret-Saada and her work on witchcraft in the French Bocage, I want to take this accusation seriously. If there is a sorcerer, who can be charged of a large set of problems (like in the chemtrail theory), we should start looking for the resulting unwitching practices. In those afar confrontations, both adversaries try to gain the faith of the public by different means. If the sorcerer derives its authority from secret methods, the unwitcher has to operate in bright light. In this sense, I will describe some of the claims of the proponents of geoengineering, such as the need for (local) experiments and data-based deliberation. I will then study how both sides refer to experiments and scientific data on the one hand, and on the other to the failure or the need for global governance and public debate. I would thus show that the growing debate on geoengineering involves non-stabilized interactions between science and society, rationality and legitimacy, faith and fear. Location: Harvard University Organization: 14th Science and Democracy Network Annual Meeting Conference End Date: Jun 27, 2015 Conference Start Date: Jun 25, 2015 Research Interests: Geoengineering, Solar Radiation Management, and Chemtrails Gabriel Dorthe hasn't uploaded this document. Let Gabriel know you want this document to be uploaded. Request PDF Report Work Job BoardAboutPressBlogPeopleTermsPrivacyCopyright We're Hiring! Help Center Academia © 2015 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
