- See Pete Foster, “ Cloud Computing — a Green Opportunity or Climate Change Risk? ” Guardian, August 18, 2011. http://www.guardian.co.uk/sustainable-business/cloud-computing-climate -change.
- On smart grids and data ownership, see Jon Bruner, “ Two Crucial Questions for the Smart Grid, ” O ’ Reilly Radar, November 5, 2012, http://radar.oreilly.com/2012/11/two-crucial-questions -for-the-smart-grid.html.
- See Sally Daultrey, “ Adaptation on the Roof of the World, ” December 30, 2010, http://designgeopolitics.org/blog/2010/12/adapatation-on-the-roof-of-the-world/.
- On the Chinese embassy air monitoring issue, see Steven Jiang and Alexis Lai, “ China: Haze Isn ’ t Foreign Embassies ’ Business, ” CNN, June 6, 2012. http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/06/world/ asia/china-foreign-embassy-pollution-monitor/index.html.
- See “ Byzantine Perspective on Climate Justice, ” New Scientist, May 11, 2011, http:// www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028124.400-byzantine-perspective-on-climate-justice.html.
- See David G. Victor, Global Warming Gridlock: Creating More Effective Strategies for Protecting the Planet (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011).
- See David Basulto, “ Roadmap 2050: A Practical Guide to a Prosperous, Low-Carbon Europe, ” ArchDaily, April 13, 2010, http://www.archdaily.com/56229/roadmap-2050-a-practical-guide-to -a-prosperous-low-carbon-europe/.
- See Paul Chapman, “ Entire Nation of Kiribati to Be Relocated over Rising Sea Level Threat, ” Telegraph, March 7, 2012, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/ kiribati/9127576/Entire-nation-of-Kiribati-to-be-relocated-over-rising-sea-level-threat.html. I had the pleasure of seeing Michael Gerrard present this work to an eager audience of architects at Columbia University ’ s XLab at an event I helped to organize with Geoff Manaugh and Ed Keller, Google/Arctic/Mars. At this event we examined how each of the three complicates normative sovereign geographies and how each might directly compare and inform the others. The event also hosted Gerrard of the Columbia University Climate Law Center, who represents the interests of drowning island nations as director of the Sabin Center for Climate Law. http://web.law.columbia.edu/climate-change.
- Brian Massumi, “ National Enterprise Emergency: Steps Toward an Ecology of Powers, ” Theory, Culture and Society 26, no. 6 (November 2009): 153. He writes, “ Dampening accident-amplification is not enough. An alternate growth pattern must be planted on the proto-territory. Fullspectrum power preempts threat by counter-producing its own systemic effects in its stead, in a supplanting of incipience. Its business is to induce potentially systemic counter-effects through an alter-emergent incursion of a change-conditioning force of nature. Preemptive power is the cuckoo in the nest of naturing nature. ”
- See my “ Undesigning the Emergency: Against Prophylactic Urban Membranes ” (lecture at O ’ Reilly ETech 2009, San Jose, CA, March 11, 2009). Williams ’ s point was that this is precisely why nanocomputing technologies are absolutely necessary to engineer that computer, not that comprehensive models are a waste of time.
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