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The risks of global warming are pressing and potentially vast. The difficulty of doing without fossil fuels is daunting, possibly even insurmountable. So there is an urgent need to rethink our responses to the crisis. To meet that need, a small but increasingly influential group of scientists is exploring proposals for planned human intervention in the climate system: a stratospheric veil against the sun, the cultivation of photosynthetic plankton, fleets of unmanned ships seeding the clouds. These are the technologies of geoengineering--and as Oliver Morton argues in this visionary book, it would be as irresponsible to ignore them as it would be foolish to see them as a simple solution to the problem. The Planet Remade explores the history, politics, and cutting-edge science of geoengineering.
About the Author
While I write about a lot of stuff, my main topic is understanding the relationships -- scientific, environmental, historical, personal and political -- between the human world and its various planets. The books built on that foundation are "Mapping Mars: Science, technology and the creation of a world" (2002) , "Eating the Sun: How plants power the planet" (2007) , "The Planet Remade: How geoengineering could change the world" (2015) and "The Moon: A history for the future" (2019) . Various people, some of them reviewers and prize juries, have said nice things about them. As well as writing books I am currently a senior editor at The Economist responsible for long-form journalism. I've also worked at the scientific journal Nature and at Wired and have freelanced for everyone from the New Yorker and the Wall Street Journal to Entertainment Weekly and the Hollywood Reporter. I do a bit of academic stuff too.
