Preface xv
Acknowledgments xix
1 Prolegomenon: A Geoengineering Primer 1
Martin Beech
2 Two Generations of Ethical Debate on Geoengineering 31
Augustine Pamplany
3 Risky Business: Complex Risks of Solar Geoengineering 51
Aaron Tang
4 Climate Justice and the Dangers of Solar Geoengineering 65
Jennie C. Stephens
5 Solar Geoengineering: An Insoluble Problem? 73
Patrick Moriarty and Damon Honnery
6 Potential Mental Health Risks Associated with Stratospheric Aerosol Injection Methods Using Aluminum Oxide 91
Giovanni Ghirga
7 What to Consider When Considering Solar Geoengineering 97
Burgess Langshaw Power
8 Moral Hazard of Geoengineering to Decarbonization 117
Soheil Shayegh
9 The Preeminent Question of Environmental Philosophy: Where Should We Set the Envirostat? 125
Mark Walker
10 Climate Hegemony and Control Over the Global Thermostat 141
John Hickman
11 Designing A Priori Scenarios for Stratospheric Aerosol Injections to Mitigate Climate Change: An Optimal Control Technique Application 151
Sergei Soldatenko
12 Testing the Limits of the World's Largest Control Task: Solar Geoengineering as a Deep Reinforcement Learning Problem 171
Eshaan Agrawal and Christian Schroeder de Witt
13 Geochemical Drivers of Enhanced Rock Weathering in Soils 207
Xavier Dupla, Susan L. Brantley, Carlos Paulo, Benjamin Möller, Ian M. Power and Stéphanie Grand
14 Geoengineering Cities with Reflective and Pervious Surfaces 231
Sushobhan Sen
15 Urban Geoengineering 247
Giles Thomson, Jonathan Fink and Peter Newman
16 Cooling Down the World Oceans and the Earth 265
Julian David Hunt, Andreas Nascimento, Fabio A. Diuana, Natália de Assis Brasil Weber, Gabriel Malta Castro, Ana Carolina Chaves, André Luiz Amarante Mesquita, Angéli Viviani Colling and Paulo Smith Schneider
17 Ice Preservation: A Research Priority for Climate Resilience and Sustainability - Experience in the Field 287
Leslie Field
18 Cirrus Cloud Thinning 297
David L. Mitchell and Ehsan Erfani
19 Can the COVID-19 Decrease in Aircraft Flights Inform us of Whether the Addition of Efficient INP to Cirrus Altitudes Cools the Climate? 307
Joyce E. Penner, Jialei Zhu and Anne Garnier
20 Biogenic Iron Oxides as a Source of Iron for Ocean Iron Fertilization 331
David Emerson, Sarabeth George, Amy Doiron and Benjamin S. Twining
21 Space Bubbles: The Deflection of Solar Radiation Using Thin-Film Inflatable Bubble Rafts 349
Nikita Klimenko, Umberto Fugiglando and Carlo Ratti
22 Optimal Sunshield Positioning 357
Christer Fuglesang
23 Could the Well of an Orbital Lift Be Used to Deposit Greenhouse Gases into Space? 367
Orfeu Bertolami
24 Ionospheric Perturbations from Satellite Dust 377
Sierra Solter
25 Geoengineering and Beyond - Planetary Defense, Space Debris, and SETI 387
Martin Beech
26 Future Imperative and the Inevitable Technofix 415
Martin Beech
Index 445
