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Better Weather?: The Cultivation of the Sky
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In this essay I use the metaphor of cultivation to reflect on the developing human relationship with the atmosphere and its weather. I suggest that the putative geoengineering projects of atmospheric purification and atmospheric enhancement constitute forms of cultivation. They resemble agricultural practices: progressive projects of development and supposed improvement through which new forms of weather will be produced.
Title: Better Weather?: The Cultivation of the Sky
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In this essay I use the metaphor of cultivation to reflect on the developing human relationship with the atmosphere and its weather.
I suggest that the putative geoengineering projects of atmospheric purification and atmospheric enhancement constitute forms of cultivation.
They resemble agricultural practices: progressive projects of development and supposed improvement through which new forms of weather will be produced.
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