Carbon, Sunshine, and Geoengineering

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2026
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Abstract
Abstract This chapter engages with debates around geoengineering including carbon dioxide removal (CDR) and solar radiation management (SRM). Geoengineering comes with major uncertainties, serious dilemmas, and potentially drastic social and environmental consequences. It is also a technical fix that expands the horizon of a fossil-fuel based capitalist economy, while offering, in itself, a new domain of financial speculation, with patents concentrating the technologies in the hands of a few companies and individuals, opening the possibility of future private rents from large scale public funding programs. As such, geoengineering is part of ‘climate extractivism’, but with the idea that extracting carbon dioxide from the atmosphere – or lessening its impact through sun radiation deflection – could become a major source of ‘green growth’. In addition, the chapter argues that geoengineering promotes the idea that the climate crisis can be fixed without transforming fossil fuel-intensive ways of living.
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Authors Philippe Le Billon
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Journal Oxford University Press eBooks
Year 2026
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10.1093/oso/9780197873434.003.0015
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https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197873434.003.0015
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