J. P. SAPINSKI is an assistant professor of environmental studies and public policy at Université de Moncton in Canada. His work draws from the critical political economy and power structure research traditions to map out the constellations of corporate interests involved in the politics of climate change and energy, including geoengineering politics. He is co-author of Organizing the 1%: How Corporate Power Works.

HOLLY JEAN BUCK is an assistant professor of environment and sustainability at the University at Buffalo, in Buffalo, NY. She is the author of After Geoengineering: Climate Tragedy, Repair, and Restoration. She has written on several aspects of climate engineering, including policy 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.

Part I Introduction

1 Critical Perspectives on Geoengineering: A Dialogue

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

INA MÖLLER

3 Carbon Unicorns and Fossil Futures: Whose Emission Reduction Pathways Is the IPCC Performing?

WIM CARTON

4 Defending a Failed Status Quo: The Case against Geoengineering from a Civil Society Perspective

LINDA SCHNEIDER AND LILI FUHR

5 Geoengineering and Indigenous Climate Justice: A Conversation with Kyle Powys Whyte

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

7 An Intersectional Analysis of Geoengineering: Overlapping Oppressions and the Demand for Ecological Citizenship

TINA SIKKA

Part III State Power, Economic Planning, and Geoengineering

8 Mobilizing in a Climate Shock: Geoengineering or Accelerated Energy Transition?

LAURENCE L. DELINA

9 A Left Defense of Carbon Dioxide Removal: The State Must Be Forced to Deploy Civilization-Saving Technology

CHRISTIAN PARENTI

10 Planning the Planet: Geoengineering Our Way Out of and Back into a Planned Economy

ANDREAS MALM

11 Provisioning Climate: An Infrastructural Approach to Geoengineering

ANNE PASEK

Part IV Geoengineering: A Class Project in the Face of Systemic Crisis?

12 Geoengineering and Imperialism

RICHARD YORK

13 Gramsci in the Stratosphere: Solar Geoengineering and Capitalist Hegemony

KEVIN SURPRISE

14 Promises of Climate Engineering after Neoliberalism

NILS MARKUSSON, DAVID TYFIELD, JENNIE C. STEPHENS, AND MADS DAHL GJEFSEN

15 Prospects of Climate Engineering in a Post-truth Era

HOLLY JEAN BUCK

Acknowledgments

Notes on Contributors

Index