Acknowledgements
Special thanks to Rosemary Coombe and Nate Holdren for their substantive feedback and to Hayley Caldwell for editorial assistance. Thank you to the participants in the Technology in Asia Workshop at Columbia University for commenting on an excerpted version of this essay, as well as my Drake LPS colleagues for doing the same. I also thank the anonymous reviewers for their constructive feedback and the editors who brought together the Forum on Climate Change and Critical Agrarian Studies. I am of course responsible for any errors.
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S. Ali Malik
S. Ali Malik is a professor in the Law, Politics, and Society program at Drake University, Des Moines, IA, USA.