Who may geoengineer: global domination, revolution, and solar radiation management
- This paper uses a novel account of non-ideal political action that can justify radical responses to severe climate injustice, including and especially deliberate attempts to engineer the climate system in order reflect sunlight into space and cooling the planet. In particular, it discusses the question of what those suffering from climate injustice may do in order to secure their fundamental rights and interests in the face of severe climate change impacts. Using the example of risky geoengineering strategies such as sulfate aerosol injections, I argue that peoples that are innocently subject to severely negative climate change impacts may have a special permission to engage in large-scale yet risky climate interventions to prevent them. Furthermore, this can be true even if those interventions wrongly harm innocent people.
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| Author: | Patrick Taylor Smith |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-674703 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.21248/gjn.13.01.237 |
| ISSN: | 1835-6842 |
| Parent Title (English): | Global justice : theory, practice, rhetoric |
| Publisher: | The Global Justice Network |
| Place of publication: | Frankfurt am Main |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2021/07/24 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2021/07/24 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2022/03/23 |
| Tag: | climate change; climate engineering; global justice; non-ideal justice; revolution; solar radiation management |
| Volume: | 13.2021 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Page Number: | 28 |
| First Page: | 138 |
| Last Page: | 165 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 493721266 |
| Institutes: | Gesellschaftswissenschaften / Gesellschaftswissenschaften |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 30 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie / 300 Sozialwissenschaften |
| 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 34 Recht / 340 Recht | |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
