Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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7424525 | Futures | 2014 | 13 Pages |
Abstract
In July 2012, Russ George, the founder of Planktos Inc., organized efforts to dump 100Â tons of iron sulfate off the coast of Canada to engineer a plankton bloom that would, ostensibly, absorb carbon dioxide and store it in the depths of the Pacific Ocean. As George's geoengineering experiment is one of the largest and first of its kind, many were quick to denounce his rogue action while others were delighted to see that he succeeded as a large algae bloom was reported to have emerged. Using the George event as a point of entry for exploring alternative futures of geoengineering in an age of global weirding, this project fuses the 2Â ÃÂ 2 scenario modeling technique with the “MÄnoa School” four-futures method by situating command and control, along X (control) and Y (command) axes as two critical uncertainties and key drivers of change that will impact the design, development, and diffusion of climate mitigation engineering initiatives, which some see as holding the only solution to avert global catastrophe and others condemn as a postnormal remedy.
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Authors
John A. Sweeney,