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1 online resource (256 p.). |
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Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique Ser.
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Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique Ser.
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| Note |
Description based upon print version of record. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Geoengineering and persuasion -- A geologic rhetoric -- CO2 and stasis -- Geoengineering risk -- Rogue geoengineering -- Homo faber -- Geologic violence -- Conclusion : A cautious hexis. |
| Summary |
"This work exposes the deeply worrying state of discourse over geoengineering-the intentional manipulation of the earth's climate as means to halt or reverse global warming. These climate-altering projects, which range from cloud-whitening to carbon dioxide removal and from stratospheric aerosol injection to enhanced weathering, are all technological solutions to more complex geosocial problems. Geoengineering represents one of the most alarming forms of deliberative discourse in the twenty-first century. Yet geoengineering could easily generate as much harm as the environmental traumas it seeks to cure. Complicating these deliberations is the scarcity of public discussion. Most deliberations transpire within policy groups, behind the closed doors of climate-oriented startups, between subject-matter experts at scientific conferences, or in the disciplinary jargon of research journals. Further, much of this conversation occurs primarily in the West. Ehren Helmut Pflugfelder makes clear how the deliberative rhetorical strategies coming from geoengineering advocates have been largely deceptive, hegemonic, deterministic, and exploitative. In this volume, he investigates how geoengineering proponents marshal geologic actors into their arguments-and how current discourse could lead to a greater exploitation of the earth in the future. Pflugfelder's goal is to understand the structure, content, purpose, and effect of these discourses, raise the alarm about their deliberative directions, and help us rethink our approach to the climate. In highlighting both the inherent problems of the discourses and the ways geologic rhetoric can be made productive, he attempts to give "the geologic" a place at the table to better understand the roles that all earth systems continue to play in our lives, now and for years to come"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Environmental geotechnology -- Social aspects.
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Communication in engineering.
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Communication in geology.
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Communication in the environmental sciences.
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Persuasion (Rhetoric)
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Communication in engineering |
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Communication in geology |
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Communication in the environmental sciences |
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Environmental geotechnology -- Social aspects |
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Persuasion (Rhetoric) |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Pflugfelder, Ehren Helmut Geoengineering, Persuasion, and the Climate Crisis Dordrecht : University of Alabama Press,c2022 9780817321420 |
| ISBN |
0817394249 |
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9780817394240 (electronic bk.) |
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9780817321420 |
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