6.125” .611 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES / PUBLIC POLICY / SOCIOLOGY S A P I N “Has It Come to This? provides insight into the rise of geoengineering onto the world SK HAS IT COME TO THIS? stage, painting a picture of societal power in a global system.” I, B —Rachael Shwom, associate professor, Rutgers University U C K , Geoengineering is the deliberate and large-scale intervention in the Earth’s climate A N system to mitigate the effects of global warming. Now that a climate emergency D is upon us, claims that geoengineering is inevitable are proliferating. How did we M The Promises and Perils of A get into this situation where the most extreme path now seems plausible? Is it an L M Geoengineering on the Brink accurate representation of where we are? Who is this “we”? What options make it onto the table? Which are left out? Whom does geoengineering serve? These are some of the questions that the thinkers contributing to this volume explore from perspectives ranging from sociology and geography to ethics and indigenous studies. The editors offer this diverse collection of voices as a place where creative thinkers, H A students, and environmental and social justice advocates can explore nuanced ideas S Edited by J. P. Sapinski, Holly Jean Buck, and Andreas Malm in more than 280 characters. I T C O M 9.25 J. P. SAPINSKI is an assistant professor of environmental studies and public policy at E Université de Moncton in Canada. His work draws from the critical political economy and T power structure research traditions to map out the constellations of corporate interests O involved in the politics of climate change and energy, including geoengineering politics. T H He is the coauthor of Organizing the 1%: How Corporate Power Works. I S ? HOLLY JEAN BUCK is an assistant professor of environment and sustainability at the Uni- versity at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY. She is the author of After Geoengineering: Climate Tragedy, Repair, and Restoration. She has written on climate engineering, including policies for scaling up carbon removal. ANDREAS MALM teaches human ecology at Lund University in Sweden. He is the author of Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming and The Progress of This Storm: Nature and Society in a Warming World. A volume in the Nature, Society, and Culture series, edited by Scott Frickel Cover art: Goldilocks Project / stock.adobe.com Cover design: Dave Kessler Design www.rutgersuniversitypress.org v2 9.11.20 - kessler Has It Come to This? Nature, Society, and Culture Scott Frickel, Series Editor A sophisticated and wide- ranging sociological literature analyzing nature-s ociety- culture interactions has blossomed in recent decades. This book series provides a platform for showcasing the best of that scholarship: carefully crafted empirical studies of socioenvironmental change and the effects such change has on ecosys- tems, social institutions, historical processes, and cultural practices. The series aims for topical and theoretical breadth. Anchored in sociological analyses of the environment, Nature, Society, and Culture is home to studies employing a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives and inves- tigating the pressing socioenvironmental questions of our time—f rom environ- mental inequality and risk, to the science and politics of climate change and serial disaster, to the environmental causes and consequences of urbanization and war making, and beyond. Available titles in the Nature, Society, and Culture series: Diane C. Bates, Superstorm Sandy: The Inevitable Destruction and Reconstruction of the Jersey Shore Elizabeth Cherry, For the Birds: Protecting Wildlife through the Naturalist Gaze Cody Ferguson, This Is Our Land: Grassroots Environmentalism in the Late Twentieth Century Aya H. Kimura and Abby Kinchy, Science by the People: Participation, Power, and the Politics of Environmental Knowledge Anthony B. Ladd, ed., Fractured Communities: Risk, Impacts, and Protest against Hydraulic Fracking in U.S. Shale Regions Stefano B. Longo, Rebecca Clausen, and Brett Clark, The Tragedy of the Com- modity: Oceans, Fisheries, and Aquaculture Stephanie A. Malin, The Price of Nuclear Power: Uranium Communities and Environmental Justice Kari Marie Norgaard, Salmon and Acorns Feed Our People: Colonialism, Nature, and Social Action J. P. Sapinski, Holly Jean Buck, and Andreas Malm, eds., Has It Come to This? The Promises and Perils of Geoengineering on the Brink Chelsea Schelly, Dwelling in Resistance: Living with Alternative Technologies in America Diane Sicotte, From Workshop to Waste Magnet: Environmental Inequality in the Philadelphia Region Sainath Suryanarayanan and Daniel Lee Kleinman, Vanishing Bees: Science, Politics, and Honeybee Health Has It Come to This? The Promises and Perils of Geoengineering on the Brink EDITED BY J. P. SAPINSKI, HOLLY JEAN BUCK, AND ANDREAS MALM Rutgers University Press New Brunswick, Camden, and Newark, New Jersey, and London Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Names: Sapinski, J. P., editor. | Buck, Holly Jean, 1981– editor. | Malm, Andreas, 1977– editor. Title: Has it come to this? : the promises and perils of geoengineering on the brink / edited by J. P. Sapinski, Holly Jean Buck, and Andreas Malm. Description: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2020] | Series: Nature, society, and culture | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2020005630 (print) | LCCN 2020005631 (ebook) | ISBN 9781978809352 (paperback) | ISBN 9781978809369 (cloth) | ISBN 9781978809376 (epub) | ISBN 9781978809383 (mobi) | ISBN 9781978809390 (pdf) Subjects: LCSH: Environmental geotechnology. | Climate change mitigation. Classification: LCC TD171.9 .H37 2020 (print) | LCC TD171.9 (ebook) | DDC 628.5/32— dc23 LC record available at https:// lccn .loc .gov/ 2020005630 LC ebook record available at https:// lccn .loc .gov/ 2020005631 A British Cataloging- in- Publication record for this book is available from the British Library. This collection copyright © 2021 by Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Individual chapters copyright © 2021 in the names of their authors All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher. Please contact Rutgers University Press, 106 Somerset Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901. The only exception to this prohibition is “fair use” as defined by U.S. copyright law. ♾ The paper used in this publication meets the requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences— Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1 992. www .rutgersuniversitypress .org Manufactured in the United States of America Contents Part I Introduction 1 Critical Perspectives on Geoengineering: A Dialogue 3 HOLLY JEAN BUCK, J. P. SAPINSKI, AND ANDREAS MALM Part II Contesting Geoengineering: Power, Justice, and Civil Society 2 Winning Hearts and Minds? Explaining the Rise of the Geoengineering Idea 21 INA MÖLLER 3 Carbon Unicorns and Fossil Futures: Whose Emission Reduction Pathways Is the IPCC Performing? 34 WIM CARTON 4 Defending a Failed Status Quo: The Case against Geoengineering from a Civil Society Perspective 50 LINDA SCHNEIDER AND LILI FUHR 5 Geoengineering and Indigenous Climate Justice: A Conversation with Kyle Powys Whyte 69 KYLE POWYS WHYTE, INTERVIEWED BY HOLLY JEAN BUCK 6 Recognizing the Injustice in Geoengineering: Negotiating a Path to Restorative Climate Justice through a Political Account of Justice as Recognition 82 DUNCAN MCLAREN v vi • Contents 7 An Intersectional Analysis of Geoengineering: Overlapping Oppressions and the Demand for Ecological Citizenship 99 TINA SIKKA Part III State Power, Economic Planning, and Geoengineering 8 Mobilizing in a Climate Shock: Geoengineering or Accelerated Energy Transition? 121 LAURENCE L. DELINA 9 A Left Defense of Carbon Dioxide Removal: The State Must Be Forced to Deploy Civilization- Saving Technology 130 CHRISTIAN PARENTI 10 Planning the Planet: Geoengineering Our Way Out of and Back into a Planned Economy 143 ANDREAS MALM 11 Provisioning Climate: An Infrastructural Approach to Geoengineering 163 ANNE PASEK Part IV Geoengineering: A Class Project in the Face of Systemic Crisis? 12 Geoengineering and Imperialism 179 RICHARD YORK 13 Gramsci in the Stratosphere: Solar Geoengineering and Capitalist Hegemony 189 KEVIN SURPRISE 14 Promises of Climate Engineering after Neoliberalism 207 NILS MARKUSSON, DAVID TYFIELD, JENNIE C. STEPHENS, AND MADS DAHL GJEFSEN 15 Prospects of Climate Engineering in a Post- truth Era 231 HOLLY JEAN BUCK Acknowledgments 241 Notes on Contributors 243 Index 247 Has It Come to This? Part I Introduction