Geoengineering, Persuasion and the Climate Crisis: A Geologic Rhetoric by Ehren Helmut Pflugfelder

Abstract

The 2022 book Geoengineering, Persuasion, and the Climate Crisis: A Geologic Rhetoric by Ehren Helmut Pflugfelder investigates an element of climate change that has received little consideration: geologic rhetoric. I began reading the book with an environmental and geological perspective, but it quickly became a synthesis of rhetoric, geology, environment, climate science, and risk communication. Pflugfelder’s book is technical and has a significant number of chemical names and geoengineering jargon, yet it is an enlightening rhetorical account from a scientific perspective on the global climate catastrophe. This book will be a valuable resource in graduate courses such as Technical Communication, Environmental Communication, Rhetoric and Writing Studies, Environmental Rhetoric, and Social Justice.