Should We “Hack the Earth” to Fix Climate Change?

Feb 12, 2009

Jamais’ collection of essays about geoengineering, Hacking the Earth, is available from Lulu.

Hacking the Earth cover (final version)


Jamais writes: It gathers together the major pieces I’ve written about geoengineering, here and at Worldchanging; I’ve edited most of them to bring the content up to date, eliminate the bloggier aspects (“such and such just appeared at this link”), and give it a bit more flow.

This is my “have to have a book in print” stake in the ground, at least for now. It’s sometimes surprising how important a print publication still is in many knowledge and analysis fields. It doesn’t matter if it’s widely read, it just needs to exist.

This is also an experiment in publish-on-demand. Rather than go through a traditional publisher, I’m trying out Lulu.com. This gives me a bit more control over the content, and allows me to put something about on a subject that probably won’t be generating a lot of mainstream attention for another couple of years.

If you decide to buy a copy, thank you. If not, thank you, too. I’m really curious about how well this model of book publishing works, in terms of both success and failure.

I don’t think I have any more geoengineering items lined up right now. Therefore, I declare Terraformingstock over for now.