MIT Technology Review: The Geopolitics of Geoengineering
„Does humanity’s tightening grip on the fate of nature portend new sources of global conflict?“
„Does humanity’s tightening grip on the fate of nature portend new sources of global conflict?“
Response to Ingall, Ellery D.; et al. (2013). „Researchers using the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science’s Advanced Photon Source found that iron was incorporated into biogenic silica in diatoms from the Southern Ocean and was then lost from the ecosystem.“
Response to Huffington Post article on the Civil Society Meeting.
Meeting report of the Civil Societe Meeting. „The meeting brought together around 40 people from major environmental, development, and justice NGOs, to consider the challenges and opportunities presented by geoengineering technologies.“
Szerszynski, Bronislaw; Galarraga, Maialen (2013): Geoengineering knowledge: interdisciplinarity and the shaping of climate engineering research. In Environ. Plann. A 45 (12), pp. 2817–2824. DOI 10.1068/a45647.
„In this paper we highlight the need to attend to the structuring power of knowledge production in geoengineering research, because of the way that problem definitions are shaped by disciplinary ways of thinking and describing the world.“
Clark, Nigel (2013): Geoengineering and geologic politics. In Environ. Plann. A 45 (12), pp. 2825–2832. DOI 10.1068/a45646.
„This paper turns the attention back on the social sciences, arguing that recent styles of ontological and political thought do not prepare us well for engaging with geologic issues in general, and geoengineering in particular.“
Yusoff, Kathryn (2013): The geoengine: geoengineering and the geopolitics of planetary modification. In Environ. Plann. A 45 (12), pp. 2799–2808. DOI 10.1068/a45645.
„This paper suggests that only by attending to the geo-ontological formations inherent in the fabrication of an engineerable earth, can a new geopolitics be accommodated within political thought that takes account of a much more active ‘geoengine’ that is being opened to political and material modification. „
Rau, G. H.; Carroll, S. A.; Bourcier, W. L.; Singleton, M. J.; Smith, M. M.; Aines, R. D. (2013): Direct electrolytic dissolution of silicate minerals for air CO2 mitigation and carbon-negative H2 production. In PNAS 110 (25), pp. 10095–10100. DOI 10.1073/pnas.1222358110.
„We experimentally demonstrate the direct coupling of silicate mineral dissolution with saline water electrolysis and H2 production to effect significant air CO2 absorption, chemical conversion, and storage in solution.“
„An interesting further application of the serpentine that is produced by this reaction, is the capture of atmospheric carbon. Serpentine in nature is known to actively scour CO2 by carbonation, and has previously been suggested as a feedstock for sequestering atmospheric carbon on a global scale.“
Szerszynski, Bronislaw; Kearnes, Matthew; Macnaghten, Phil; Owen, Richard; Stilgoe, Jack (2013): Why solar radiation management geoengineering and democracy won’t mix. In Environ. Plann. A 45 (12), pp. 2809–2816. DOI 10.1068/a45649.
„In this paper we argue that recent policy treatments of solar radiation management (SRM) have insufficiently addressed its potential implications for contemporary political systems.“