Philipp Lehmann

How technological advances and colonial fears inspired utopian geoengineering projects during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. From the 1870s to the mid-twentieth century, European explorers, climatologists, colonial officials, and planners were avidly interested in large-scale projects that might actively alter the climate. Uncovering this history, Desert Edens looks at how arid environments and an increasing anxiety about climate...