ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces a post-human approach to understanding international relations and the environment. Geoengineering is increasingly being promoted as a means of averting large-scale disruption resulting from anthropogenic climate change. Solar radiation management approaches involve devising ways to reduce and/or reflect the amount of sunlight that hits the Earth's atmosphere. While geoengineering might not be inevitable, it is increasingly being considered as a serious option. Given the potential global impacts of geoengineering there is a surprising dearth of work within International Relations addressing the issue. Geoengineering has the potential to become the most serious international political issue of the twentieth century. Post-humanism is currently making a significant impact across the social sciences. Post-humanism is based on an understanding of complexity that draws in particular on Morin's notion of generalised complexity, and is based around the central notion of the complex adaptive system.
