Climates as commodities: Jean Pierre Purry and the modelling of the best climate on Earth |
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| Authors: | Vladimir Jankovic |
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| Institution: | 1. Environmental Hydraulics Institute, IHCantabria. Universidad de Cantabria. Santander, Spain;2. Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, United States Geological Survey, Santa Cruz, CA, USA;1. ESC Rennes School of Business, 2 Rue Robert d''Arbrissel, 35065 Rennes, France;2. ISC Paris, 22 Boulevard du Fort de Vaux, 75017 Paris, France;3. African Export-Import Bank, Afreximbank Building, 72 (B), El Maahad El Eshteraky Street Heliopolis, Cairo 11341, Egypt;4. LEO (UMR CNRS 7322), Université d''Orléans, Rue de Blois - B.P. 6739, 45067 Orléans Cedex 2, France |
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| Abstract: | The paper looks at how an early eighteenth-century climatological model of the ‘best climate’ on Earth became a platform for political, economic, and demographic action of extraordinary significance for the colonization of new commodity environments. It analyzes the science used by an early modern business adventurer to model ‘climate’ as an economic tool informing imperial governance and exploitation of local resources. Jean Pierre Purry’s construction of ‘model climate’ portrayed North Carolina’s township at Yamassee River as an ideal environment geared toward mercantilist principles of trade but also as a model community based on skilled labor and optimal climatic capital. His climatological analysis was a purposeful act of policy making based on a science of colonial expansion similar to more recent calls at economic modelling of future climate impact. |
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