Ray Hammond’ın Extinction Romanında İklim Yönetimi ve Yapısal Bilmezlik

Year 2021, Issue: 24, 225 - 246, 20.10.2021

Hakan Yılmaz

https://doi.org/10.30767/diledeara.1011950

Abstract

Extinction (2005) adlı distopik romanında, Ray Hammond, dünyanın daha zengin bölgelerinden olan çok uluslu şirketlerin ve hükümetlerin iklimi kontrol etmesine ve dünyanın geri kalanına iklim hizmetleri satarak kazanç sağlamasına olanak veren iklim yönetiminin aşırı bir formunun başına bela olduğu dünyanın yakın gelecekteki bir tasvirini yapar. Şirketlerin ve hükümetlerin temsil ettiği kapitalist sistemin istilacı iklim yönetim uygulamaları, yerküre sistemlerinin doğal ritimlerini, bunların çöküşüne varan ölçüde, sekteye uğratır ve bozar. Üstelik, romanda, ERGIA Şirketi ve Amerikan hükümeti gibi kendini önceleyen kapitalist sistemin temsilcileri, sonu gelmeyen iklim yönetimlerinin zararlı etkilerini kanıtlayan bilimsel bulguları ve kanıtları ortadan kaldırarak ve/ya karartarak, uygulamalarının gerçek yüzü ile ilgili bilmezlik yayarlar. Dolayısıyla, bu çalışma, ileri düzey iklim yönetim sistemlerinin uzayda kurulu olduğu ve hava olaylarının sıkı bir şekilde kontrol edildiği bir dünya sunan Ray Hammond’ın Extinction isimli eserinde, kapitalist şirketlerin ve hükümetlerin sürdürülen uygulamaları ile çevresel bozulma ve çöküş arasındaki bağlantıların izini sürmeyi hedeflemektedir. Ayrıca, romanda, aşırı iklim yönetimi sebebiyle dünyanın manyetik alanına yoğun bir darbe inmesi sonucu meydana gelen çevresel felaketlerin, dünyayı yok oluşa sürükleyen büyük ölçekli iklim yönetiminin zararlı ve geri dönüşü olmayan etkilerini ve sonuçlarını, çıkarcı ve amansız kapitalist sistemin görememesini ya da bundan ziyade kasıtlı görmezden gelişini nasıl açığa çıkardığını tartışmaktadır.

Keywords

Ray Hammond, Extinction, İklim Değişikliği, İklim Yönetimi, Küresel Isınma, Agnotoloji, Kapitalizm

Climate Management and Structural Ignorance in Ray Hammond’s Extinction

Abstract

In his dystopian novel, Extinction (2005), Ray Hammond envisions an image of the world in the near future where it is troubled by an extreme form of climate management that enables multi-national corporations and governments from the wealthier regions of the world to control the climate and make profits by selling climate services to the rest of the world. The invasive climate management practices of the capitalist system represented by corporations and governments interfere with and disrupt the natural rhythms of the Earth systems to the extent of the latter’s collapse. Moreover, the representatives of the capitalist self-prioritizing system such as the ERGIA Corporation and the US Government in the novel spread ignorance regarding the true nature of their practices by suppressing and/or obscuring scientific findings and evidence that prove the harmful effects of their relentless climate management. Accordingly, this paper aims at tracing the links between the perpetuated practices of the capitalist corporations and governments, and environmental degradation and collapse in Ray Hammond’s Extinction which presents a world where advanced climate management systems have been implemented in space and weather events are tightly controlled and scheduled. It further discusses how the environmental cataclysms brought about by deep interference with the Earth’s magnetic field via extreme climate management in the novel expose the self-interested and ruthless capitalist system’s failure to see or rather deliberate ignorance of the detrimental and irreversible effects and consequences of large-scale climate management which drives the world to extinction.

Keywords

Ray Hammond, Extinction, Climate Change, Climate Management, Global Warming, Agnotology, Capitalism

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