Verso Books After geoengineering | holly jean buck

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• Climate engineering is a dystopian project.
• But as the human species hurtles ever faster towards its own extinction, geoengineering as a temporary fix, to buy time for carbon removal, is a seductive idea.
• We are right to fear that geoengineering will be used to maintain the status quo, but is there another possible future after geoengineering?
• Can these technologies and practices be used as technologies of repair, to bring carbon levels back down to pre-industrial levels?
• Are there possibilities for massive intentional intervention in the climate that are democratic, decentralized, or participatory?
• Is there a scenario where the people can define and enact geoengineering on our own terms?
• These questions are provocative, because they go against a binary that has become common sense: geoengineering is assumed to be on the side of industrial agriculture, inequality and ecomodernism, in opposition to degrowth, renewable energy, sustainable agriculture and climate justice.
• After Geoengineering rejects this binary, to ask: what if the people seized the means of climate production?
• Both critical and utopian, the book examines the possible futures after geoengineering.
• Rejecting the idea that geoengineering is some kind of easy work-around, Holly Buck outlines the kind of social transformation that would be necessary to enact a programme of geoengineering in the first place.