top of page

Oliver Morton
I think about scientific, technological and planetary change. Currently a senior editor at The Economist, I have also worked at Nature and Wired and as a freelance. I have written four books: “Mapping Mars: Science, Imagination and the Birth of a World” (2002); “Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet” (2007); “The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World” (2015); and “The Moon: A History for the Future” (2019). They all deal with understanding and imagining planetary processes, most notably climate change on Earth. I am the chair of the trustees of The Degrees Initiative, and the namesake of Asteroid 10716 Olivermorton

bottom of page