Governing Climate: How Science and Politics Have Shaped Our Environmental FutureAfter decades of debate about global warming, the fact of the climate crisis is finally widely accepted. People at all scales—from the household to the global market—are attempting to govern climate to deal with its causes and impacts. Although the stakes are different now, governing climate is centuries old. In this book, Zeke Baker develops a genealogy of climate science that traces the relationship between those who have created knowledge of the climate and those who have attempted to gain power and govern society, right up to the present, historic moment. Baker draws together over two centuries of science, politics, and environmental change to demonstrate the "co-production" of climate knowledge and power-seeking activity, with a focus on the United States. This book provides a fresh account of contemporary issues transecting science and climate politics, specifically the rise of "climate security," and examines how climate science can either facilitate or reconcile the unequal distribution of power and resources. |
Contents
Governing Climate in the Past | 1 |
CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE COPRODUCTION | 33 |
Territory and State Formation 18001850 | 67 |
Agricultural Capitalism | 103 |
The Climate State and the Origins of a Climate | 161 |
and Security Technologies | 192 |
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