{"id":42,"date":"2010-09-16T18:47:35","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T22:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jfleming\/?p=42"},"modified":"2010-09-16T23:29:51","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T03:29:51","slug":"42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jfleming\/2010\/09\/16\/42\/","title":{"rendered":"The American Scholar: Prozac for the Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Geoengineering in any form looks downright dangerous to Colby College historian James Fleming, whose latest book is Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control. Fleming does not mince words: \u201cGeoengineering is in fact untested and dangerous. We don\u2019t understand it, we can\u2019t test it on smaller than planetary scales, and we don\u2019t have the political capital, wisdom, or will to govern it. Planetary tinkering is not \u2018cheap,\u2019 as some economists claim, since the side effects are unknown. It poses a moral hazard by possibly reducing incentives to mitigate. It could be attempted unilaterally, or worse, proliferate among rogue states, and . . . learning from history, it would be militarized. Geoengineering could violate a number of existing treaties.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Quoting Christopher Cokinos in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanscholar.org\/prozac-for-the-planet\/#more-7550\">The American Scholar<\/a> (Autumn 2010).<\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-42\" data-postid=\"42\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-42 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geoengineering in any form looks downright dangerous to Colby College historian James Fleming, whose latest book is Fixing the Sky: The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control. Fleming does not mince words: \u201cGeoengineering is in fact untested and dangerous. We don\u2019t understand it, we can\u2019t test it on smaller than planetary scales, and we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5943],"tags":[5944],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jfleming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jfleming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jfleming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jfleming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jfleming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jfleming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jfleming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/66"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jfleming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jfleming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/jfleming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}