What if the people seized the means of climate production?
Holly Buck writes on emerging technologies in the Anthropocene, with work appearing in journals like Development and Change, Climatic Change, Annals of the American Association of Geographers and Hypatia. Since 2009, she has been working on geoengineering, including as a faculty fellow with the Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment in Washington, DC, a project scientist with the Institute of Advanced Sustainability Studies in Potsdam, Germany, and as a member of the Steering Committee for the international Climate Engineering Conference in Berlin. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute on the Environment at the University of California, Los Angeles.
In the face of rapid climate change, how should we think about
geoengineering? In this timely and bold book, Holly Jean Buck lays
out a case for approaching geoengineering from the Left. Blending
journalistic insight with scientific speculation, After
Geoenginneeringinspires much-needed thought experiments about the
changes coming to our warmer and weirder world.
*Joel Wainwright, author of Decolonizing Development,
Geopiracy, and Climate Leviathan (with Geoff
Mann)*
With After Geoengineering, Holly Buck offers a sobering, prescient
vision of a climate realism that we should heed. She decisively
alters how the Left might understand the challenges of Planetarity
and what anthropogenic intervention may require, both
technologically and ethically. There are no easy solutions on
offer, only difficult paths to cross while they are still open.
*Benjamin H. Bratton, University of California, San Diego*
This is the guide to the future. There's hardly anything scarier
than geoengineering, but it is coming towards us, closer for every
day of CO2 spewed into the air. It can no longer be wished away -
and thankfully, we have Holly Jean Buck to explain what it might
look like and how it could be survived, perhaps even used for the
good of the planet. Written in graceful prose, combining the latest
science with the crystal ball of a sci-fi author, this book shines.
Anyone worried about what comes next should read it.
*Andreas Malm, author of The Progress of This Storm and
Fossil Capital*
Geoengineering is the 'third rail' of left green politics that no
one dares to touch. Holly Buck transcends stale debates and allows
us to imagine a hopeful world beyond both capitalism and climate
catastrophe. Providing a rigorous (and joyful!) look at
technological options to buy time, adapt to change, and renew the
planet, this radical book is long overdue.
*Paul Robbins, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies*
Climate is now an unmitigated disaster. Talk is already turning
from reducing carbon outputs to more drastic solutions. Progressive
activists are going to need to get up to speed on the emerging
geoengineering industrial complex. Holly Jean Buck walks us briskly
through what we need to know to engage with this deepening
planetary crisis.
*McKenzie Wark, author of Molecular Red*
The topic of geoengineering usually merits a quick dismissal among
environmentalists, but Holly Buck's After Geoengineeringshows it is
extremely complex with multiple available options. As emissions
continue to rise and warming continues, this topic needs serious
attention on the left since revolutionizing our energy system is
likely not enough given what we've already emitted. Buck's
brilliant - and hopeful - overview is not merely technical or
economic, but addresses head-on the implications for climate
justice. Beautifully written, including creative 'sketches'
imagining future scenarios, this book is required reading for how
to navigate the crisis ahead.
*Matt Huber, author of Lifeblood: Oil, Freedom and the Forces of
Capital*
A limpid synthesis of elegy and urgency. Unflinching about what
looms for the world, Holly Buck outlines radical, transformative
demands and agendas for a least-bad way forward, in the service of
better ways thereafter.
*China Miéville, author of October: the Story of the Russian
Revolution*
A really fantastic book; as if Ursula K. LeGuin wrote a definitive
study of carbon management options for the 21st century. A
meticulously researched, beautifully drawn portrait of dozens of
possible futures and how to make them reality. A must-read for
anyone who cares about making a cooler and more just future for
generations to come.
*Emma Marris, author of Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a
Post-Wild World*
Original, thought-provoking...Accounts of cutting-edge
technologies...are shot through with interludes of speculative
fiction, which inject human nuance into risk-laden scenarios.
*Nature*
After Geoengineering...hints, though, that the movement is at last
starting to offer strategic thinking commensurate with the crisis
at hand.
*Boston Review*
Original, thought-provoking
*Nature*
A book to be read on its own terms...Buck's eloquent and useful
text seeks to disentangle a varied and complex cluster of
technologies from the intimidating labels of 'climate intervention'
or 'geoengineering'.
*New Socialist*
Buck expertly the nuance and complexity of figuring out what to do
with the remains of an industry on which the entire global economy
currently depends.
*Issues in Science and Technology*
Besides her exemplary and comprehensive survey of current and
near-future decarbonization technologies, one of the strengths of
Buck's approach to narrative nonfiction is the treatment of an
issue often too complex for individual imaginations.Incisive
commentary and strong prose.
*Elizabeth Garbee*
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