The hidden injustices of advancing solar geoengineering research
Advancing solar geoengineering research is associated with multiple hidden injustices that are revealed by addressing three questions: Who is conducting and funding solar geoengineering research? How do those advocating for solar geoengineering research think about social justice and social change?...
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| description | Advancing solar geoengineering research is associated with multiple hidden injustices that are revealed by addressing three questions: Who is conducting and funding solar geoengineering research? How do those advocating for solar geoengineering research think about social justice and social change? How is this technology likely to be deployed? Navigating these questions reveals that solar geoengineering research is being advocated for by a small group of primarily white men at elite institutions in the Global North, funded largely by billionaires or their philanthropic arms, who are increasingly adopting militarized approaches and logics. Solar geoengineering research advances an extreme, expert–elite technocratic intervention into the global climate system that would serve to further concentrate contemporary forms of political and economic power. For these reasons, we argue that it is unethical and unjust to advance solar geoengineering research. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6f8c2576f96043fb9621234f61d84f262023-03-09T12:43:40ZengCambridge University PressGlobal Sustainability2059-47982020-01-01310.1017/sus.2019.28The hidden injustices of advancing solar geoengineering researchJennie C. Stephens0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0386-8115Kevin Surprise1School of Public Policy & Urban Affairs, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Global Resilience Institute, Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Ave, RP 360C, Boston, MA02115, USAEnvironmental Studies, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, USAAdvancing solar geoengineering research is associated with multiple hidden injustices that are revealed by addressing three questions: Who is conducting and funding solar geoengineering research? How do those advocating for solar geoengineering research think about social justice and social change? How is this technology likely to be deployed? Navigating these questions reveals that solar geoengineering research is being advocated for by a small group of primarily white men at elite institutions in the Global North, funded largely by billionaires or their philanthropic arms, who are increasingly adopting militarized approaches and logics. Solar geoengineering research advances an extreme, expert–elite technocratic intervention into the global climate system that would serve to further concentrate contemporary forms of political and economic power. For these reasons, we argue that it is unethical and unjust to advance solar geoengineering research.https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2059479819000280/type/journal_articleclimate justiceclimate mitigationclimate policygeoengineering |
| spellingShingle | Jennie C. Stephens Kevin Surprise The hidden injustices of advancing solar geoengineering research Global Sustainability climate justice climate mitigation climate policy geoengineering |
| title | The hidden injustices of advancing solar geoengineering research |
| title_full | The hidden injustices of advancing solar geoengineering research |
| title_fullStr | The hidden injustices of advancing solar geoengineering research |
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| title_short | The hidden injustices of advancing solar geoengineering research |
| title_sort | hidden injustices of advancing solar geoengineering research |
| topic | climate justice climate mitigation climate policy geoengineering |
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