Abstract Technologies for manipulating the weather and climate have long been around, especially since early 1950s. Weather modification applications were quickly weaponised to influence war protest, until 1978 UN Convention on Prohibition of Military or any other hostile use Environmental Modification Techniques. Reviewed interest in controlling has grown again since. Technology modify used co...

While the precautionary principle may have offered a sound basis for managing environmental risk in Holocene, depth and width of Anthropocene made precaution increasingly untenable. Not only many ecosystems already been damaged beyond natural recovery, achieving sustainable long-term global trajectory now seem to require ever greater measures proactionary risk-taking, particular relation growin...

Great claims have been made about the benefits of dematerialization in a digital service economy. However, digitalization has historically increased environmental impacts at local and planetary scales, affecting labor markets, resource use, governance, power relationships. Here we study past, present, future through lens three interdependent elements Anthropocene: ( a) boundaries stability, b) ...