Desert Edens: Colonial Climate Engineering in the Age of Anxiety Lehmann Philipp
Desert Edens: Colonial Climate Engineering in the Age of Anxiety Lehmann Philipp How technological advances and colonial fears inspired utopian geoengineering projects during the late nineteenth and…
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Desert Edens: Colonial Climate Engineering in the Age of Anxiety Lehmann Philipp
How technological advances and colonial fears inspired utopian geoengineering projects during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuriesFrom the 1870s to the mid-twentieth century, European explorers, climatologists, colonial officials, and planners were avidly interested in large-scale projects that might actively alter the climate. From notions about the transformation of deserts into forests to Nazi plans to influence the climates of war-torn areas, Philipp Lehmann puts the early climate change debate in its environmental, intellectual, and political context, and considers the ways this legacy reverberates in the present climate crisis.Lehmann examines some of the Uncovering this history, Desert Edens looks at how arid environments and an increasing anxiety about climate in the colonial world shaped this upsurge in ideas about climate engineering.
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