Experiments in geoengineering intentionally manipulating the Earths climate to reduce global warming have become the focus of a vital debate about responsible science and innovation. Drawing on three years of sociological research working with scientists on one of the worlds first major geoengineering projects, this book examines the politics of experimentation. Geoengineering provides a test case for rethinking the responsibilities of scientists and asking how science can take better care of the futures that it helps bring about.
This book gives students, researchers and the general reader interested in the place of science in contemporary society a compelling framework for future thinking and discussion.
1. Balloon Debate 2. Taking Care of the Future 3. Rethinking the Unthinkable 4. Behind the Scenes at the Royal Society 5. Open-Air Experimentation 6. Making Models 7. The Reluctant Geoengineers 7. Reclaiming the Experiment
How should society react when the technological imagination seizes on the Earth itself as an experimental system? In this graceful critique of magical thinking, Stilgoe dissects the moves by which some came to see geoengineering as a project that not only can be done but must be done. An essential addition to the renewed debate on climate change, the book invites citizens and policy makers to think again about expert claims of inevitability, and to retake the future as a space for ethical and democratic imagining. Sheila Jasanoff, Harvard Kennedy School, USA
Experiment Earth is a book that is urgently needed. As human development becomes ever-more interwoven with the evolution of climate, Stilgoe asks a profound question: What does it mean to take responsibility for global climate? His answer is more than about climate and science, and more thanls
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