{"product_id":"the-planet-remade-how-geoengineering-could-change-the-world-paperback","title":"The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eOliver Morton\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA fascinating look at the perils and promise of geoengineering and our potential future on a warming planet\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Planet Remade\u003c\/i\u003e explores the history, politics, and cutting-edge science of geoengineering. Morton weighs both the promise and perils of these controversial strategies and puts them in the broadest possible context. The past century's changes to the planet--to the clouds and the soils, to the winds and the seas, to the great cycles of nitrogen and carbon--have been far more profound than most of us realize. Appreciating those changes clarifies not just the scale of what needs to be done about global warming, but also our relationship to nature. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eClimate change is not just one of the twenty-first century's defining political challenges. Morton untangles the implications of our failure to meet the challenge of climate change and reintroduces the hope that we might. He addresses the deep fear that comes with seeing humans as a force of nature, and asks what it might mean--and what it might require of us--to try and use that force for good.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Oliver Morton displays here again the usual virtues of his writing, which include a sparkling clarity maintained even when conveying huge complex masses of information, often about topics new to all of us; and then, even more importantly, good judgment. He makes distinctions when evaluating gnarly problems, and explains the distinctions very persuasively, and with a generous dry wit. All these abilities are now devoted to perhaps the crucial question of our time, the climate, making this simply a Necessary Book, which is also a pleasure to read. Maybe that combination makes it sui generis, but in any case it's an important addition to current discourse, an excellent way to get oriented to our most pressing environmental problem, and I urge people to read it and ponder its news.\"\u003cb\u003e--Kim Stanley Robinson, author of \u003ci\u003eRed Mars and Aurora\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is the first book to properly consider the dimensions of the new world we are living in. Morton's book is indispensable, highly readable, and incredibly timely.\"\u003cb\u003e--Mark Lynas, author of \u003ci\u003eThe God Species\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A scholar and a fine literary stylist, Oliver Morton sets the geoengineering debate in a fascinating historical and social context. \u003ci\u003eThe Planet Remade\u003c\/i\u003e is much the best book on the subject and deserves a wide readership.\"\u003cb\u003e--Martin Rees, author of \u003ci\u003eOur Final Century\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"One of the most important and provocative books I've read in years. \u003ci\u003eThe Planet Remade\u003c\/i\u003e is essential for policymakers, environmentalists, skeptics, and anyone else who prefers their views on climate change to be based on evidence rather than rhetoric.\"\u003cb\u003e--Hari Kunzru, \u003ci\u003eauthor of Gods without Men\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Written with the grace and clarity its subject demands, \u003ci\u003eThe Planet Remade\u003c\/i\u003e offers just what the issue of climate change needs: fresh thinking about what can be done, based on deep respect for the planet, the science, and the concerns of people with differing points of view. It's an enriching addition to the literature of possible worlds.\"\u003cb\u003e--Marek Kohn, author of \u003ci\u003eA Reason for Everything and Turned Out Nice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Deeply rooted in history and smartly optimistic about the future, this is--by far--the best book yet on geoengineering.\"\u003cb\u003e--David Keith, Harvard University and author of \u003ci\u003eA Case for Climate Engineering\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In Morton's new book, he takes on some of the most challenging issues of our age. It is a readable and thought-provoking look at humanity's dance with hubristic ideas and deeds regarding the manipulation of the environment on a planetary scale. He is clearly one of the best science writers of our day.\"\u003cb\u003e--Steven Hamburg, Environmental Defense Fund\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Taking a sensible and low-key approach to a rather provocative subject, Morton shows why geoengineering is something that the mainstream will need to consider--it's not something just for the fringes.\"\u003cb\u003e--Ken Caldeira, Carnegie Institution for Science\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Morton accessibly describes the potential and risks of geoengineering and puts them in the context of climate change and other large-scale interventions that humans have had on the earth system or might seek to have in the future.\"\u003cb\u003e--Tim Kruger, University of Oxford\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Engaging, persuasive, and thought provoking. Morton discusses the potential role and consequences of geoengineering and puts forward his own carefully considered views on the subject. \u003ci\u003eThe Planet Remade\u003c\/i\u003e is a tour de force of wide-ranging scholarship as well as a soundly argued polemic.\"\u003cb\u003e--John Shepherd, University of Southampton\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOliver Morton\u003c\/b\u003e is briefings editor at the \u003ci\u003eEconomist\u003c\/i\u003e, and his writing has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e and other publications. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eEating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 440\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.9 x 5.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 02, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51761527750944,"sku":"9780691175904","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/583dd4ffbb7ea9c24342ca5591afa383.webp?v=1780209692","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-planet-remade-how-geoengineering-could-change-the-world-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}