ABSTRACT

The Anthropocene is fundamentally altering concepts of human agency and responsibility in the governance of the Earth system. These concepts are paramount in discussions about governing deliberate interventions into the global climate – often referred to as ‘climate engineering’. Reflections on what it might mean for humanity to ‘play God’ by controlling the climate have brought religious knowledge to bear in these discussions. Using climate engineering as a paradigmatic example of human interventions which may come to define the Anthropocene, this paper presents a sociology-of-knowledge discourse analysis of interviews with environmentally active multi-faith leaders and scholars. Showing how green religious discourse provides a blueprint for a governmentality of Socio-Ecological Care (SEC), the paper argues that religious knowledge has a role to play alongside other global systems of knowledge in reconceptualising the who, what, why and how of responsible and sustainable Earth system governance in the Anthropocene.

摘要

人类世正在从根本上改变人类在地球系统治理中的能动性和责任的概念。这些概念在关于管理对全球气候的故意干预的讨论中至关重要——通常被称为“气候工程”。对人类通过控制气候来“扮演上帝”可能意味着什么的思考，在这些讨论中带来了宗教知识。使用气候工程作为人类干预的范例，人类干预可能会定义人类世，本文对与环境活跃的多信仰领袖和学者的访谈进行了知识社会学话语分析。展示绿色宗教话语如何为社会生态关怀 (SEC) 的治理提供蓝图，该论文认为，宗教知识可以与其他全球知识体系一起在重新概念化人类世负责任和可持续地球系统治理的人、内容、原因和方式方面发挥作用。