Earthmasters: The Dawn of the Age of Climate Engineering

摘要

After publishing two very different books on the same topic, Clive Hamilton and David Keith engaged in a public debate at Columbia University. The central question in their debate-and the question at the heart of each book-was whether humans should try to engineer the global climate to counteract climate change (C-SPAN, 2013). Each writer's book aims to introduce readers to a range of scientific, political and ethical issues surrounding climate engineering (also known as geoengineering). Each author aims to tilt readers toward a particular stance on climate engineering-against climate engineering in Hamilton's case, and cautiously for it in Keith's. Hamilton's book, being much longer, explores more issues in more detail; Keith's gives just enough of a taste to motivate the idea that climate engineering deserves serious consideration.