Hitler's Philosophers. By YvonneSherratt. Pp. xx, 302, New Haven/London, Yale University Press, 2013, £25.00.

Hamilton, Alastair

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“…This must be clearly stated, in addition to saying that these funds in hard cash 26 paid to these useless technicians would be put to far better use helping national technicians and institutions that dedicate themselves to the study of irrigation in Chile. 29 In general terms, it can be argued that the Chilean state showed a significant capacity to adapt to diverse circumstances during the drought since it was able to create new ad-hoc institutions and mobilize a series of infrastructure resources to overcome the situation. However, there were limitations to this phenomenon since the government addressed the crisis and its impact essentially from an economic and productive perspective.…”

Section: Institutional Adaptations and Infrastructurementioning

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Thirsty Country: State, Water, and the “War on Drought” in Chile in the 1960s

Purcell

2022

Hist. Crit.

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Objective/Context: This paper studies the role of the Chilean state during the great drought of 1967-1969 as a mediator between human beings and nature. Institutional adaptations and the effort to improve the infrastructure were elements of continuity with respect to previous droughts, but there were novelties as well, such as attempts to pursue weather modification and the artificial melting of glaciers. The support of technologies and scientists operating from peripheral state institutions was essential for these purposes. All the above took place in the context of the Cold War when the predominant environmental imaginaries made human intervention look favorable and necessary for the modernization of countries. Methodology: Diverse primary sources were used, such as ministerial documents, decrees, bulletins, and reports of different state institutions that allowed understanding the logic of state management during the water crisis. Similarly, research in national and international press helped identify how imaginaries about the environment were expressed and disseminated publicly, which tended to validate novel efforts to control nature. Originality: This is an original study for Latin America, which addresses the early appearance of science and technology in the efforts of what today would be known as geoengineering: mainly through the observation of new actors, which expanded the traditional forms of mediation between humans and nature, led by the state, concerning climate crises. Conclusions: In the 1960s, optimism grew for the human capacity to control and manipulate water resources by appealing to ways other than those previously known, associated with infrastructure development. Expert knowledge was placed at the service of peripheral institutions of the state to promote these changes with lasting consequences. The human desire to control nature at all costs was validated, which helps explain the temporal projection of experiments with artificial rain and glacier control to the present day in Chile.

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Section: Institutional Adaptations and Infrastructurementioning

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Thirsty Country: State, Water, and the “War on Drought” in Chile in the 1960s

Purcell

2022

Hist. Crit.

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“…If humanity has already unintentionally stumbled into the Anthropocene by becoming the dominant planetary agent [62], we may worry about the sort of agent that emerges in an 'intentional' Anthropocene in which human action deliberately seeks to shape planetary processes. While this might appear far-fetched, xii Hamilton argues that CCS has already displaced mitigation over the past decade [43]. xiii There is also a significant knowledge disparity between policy makers and members of the public, where the latter face substantial barriers in becoming informed about climate policy or geoengineering research.…”

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The ethics of negative emissions

Lenzi

2018

Glob. Sustain.

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Non-technical abstractLimiting dangerous climate change is widely believed to require negative emissions. This prospect has sparked concerns about whether negative emissions could be scaled up quickly enough, along with concerns about their likely ethical costs. Building upon scenario modelling, this paper examines ethical concerns with negative emissions via the comparison of three alternate climate futures. This paper shows that the severity of concerns depends upon implementation conditions, and especially the extent of deferred mitigation. Negative emissions can be a valuable means of limiting dangerous climate change, or an unjust gamble against the future.

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“…Through its dual identity as a technological endeavour of both "global" and "intentional" remit (Clingerman, 2014;Galarraga & Szerszynski, 2012), geoengineering has, nevertheless, been argued to have unprecedented potential to recalibrate the parameters through which notions of nature and human agency are constructed. By widening the meaning of what it is to live within the Anthropocene (Crutzen, 2002a(Crutzen, , 2002bSteffen et al, 2007), geoengineering technologies may draw humanity into new relationships with nature (Hamilton, 2013;Preston, 2012).…”

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Geoengineering at the “Edge of the World”: Exploring perceptions of ocean fertilisation through the Haida Salmon Restoration Corporation

Gannon

Hulme

2018

Geography and Environment

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The Haida Salmon Restoration Corporation's (HSRC) 2012 ocean fertilisation experiment introduced a controversial geoengineering technology to the First Nations village of Old Massett on the islands of Haida Gwaii in British Columbia. Local debate centred on conflicting interpretations of the potential environmental impacts of the project and on the Corporation's attempts to align its public brand with the Haida name and proud identity of environmental stewardship. More broadly, the controversy illustrated long-standing arguments about the desirability and feasibility of ocean fertilisation as a geoengineering response to the threat of anthropogenic climate change. Using the HSRC case, this paper reports a novel situated study of public perceptions of geoengineering that combines ethnographic engagement with Q-methodology. Three distinct viewpoints on ocean fertilisation are revealed, shaped by the unique confluence of social, political, cultural and environmental circumstances of Haida Gwaii. These viewpoints on ocean fertilisation reflect different ideas held by local residents about planetary limits, about the way humans attain knowledge of natural systems and about the human values of, and responsibilities toward, nature. Although the revealed viewpoints are constructed through contextually specific local meanings, they engage with debates that emerge across a range of other geoengineering technologies and which reflect contested philosophical positions visible in wider environmental management and restoration discourses. The case of ocean fertilisation off the islands of Haida Gwaii may therefore provide a useful benchmark for reflexivity in geoengineering governance. Our case study shows that engaging with the situated beliefs and values that underpin human attitudes and responses towards novel geoengineering technologies is a sine qua non for good governance. Even so, our results suggest such technologies will likely always be contested given the diverse ways in which people understand human relations with the non-human world. K E Y W O R D Sgeoengineering, Haida Gwaii, ideologies of nature, ocean fertilisation, public engagement, Qmethodology

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Hitler's Philosophers. By YvonneSherratt. Pp. xx, 302, New Haven/London, Yale University Press, 2013, £25.00.

Cited by 3 publications

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Thirsty Country: State, Water, and the “War on Drought” in Chile in the 1960s

Thirsty Country: State, Water, and the “War on Drought” in Chile in the 1960s

The ethics of negative emissions

Geoengineering at the “Edge of the World”: Exploring perceptions of ocean fertilisation through the Haida Salmon Restoration Corporation

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