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A review by simont24
The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World by Oliver Morton
2.0
A monumental drag to read in places. I was also expecting more solutions than the scant handful provided - the author seemed to return constantly to atmospheric veils. Maybe it felt like that because I ended up reading the same sentence multiple times...
Given that the author was an editor for several high profile publications, I found it quite amusing that the book could have used a very heavy edit itself. In places it was needlessly poetic and I regularly encountered sentences which were entire paragraphs (I actually counted a few - some sentences were well over 100 words long). Overall I felt there was little real since here.
I was lured into this by a blurb that promised a fascinating discussion on future technology. What I left with was some detailed information on a few topics and not much else.
Given that the author was an editor for several high profile publications, I found it quite amusing that the book could have used a very heavy edit itself. In places it was needlessly poetic and I regularly encountered sentences which were entire paragraphs (I actually counted a few - some sentences were well over 100 words long). Overall I felt there was little real since here.
I was lured into this by a blurb that promised a fascinating discussion on future technology. What I left with was some detailed information on a few topics and not much else.