List, cc Andrew
Too bad that the full van Gool paper is not available. I look forward
to Andrew’s “no-governance” paper.
I write hoping we can have some discussion on the “necessarily” part of
this phrase from below:
“Large-scale implementation of such techniques would necessarily require
centralized coordination….”
Biochar is by no means “large scale” yet but it is growing rapidly and, it
appears, totally without “centralized coordination.”
A no-fee paper on Gewirth is at:
http://www.kritike.org/journal/issue_5/montana_june2009.pdf
<http://www.kritike.org/journal/issue_5/montana_june2009.pdf>. And a doctoral
thesis by the same author.
I see very little interest by “wealthy individuals” so far in biochar,
so gather that Mr/Ms van Gool would find that preferable; I believe the biochar
community would welcome more interest by the wealthy (and governments).
Ron
> On Sep 26, 2016, at 2:46 PM, Andrew Lockley <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Poster's note : in contrast to the arguments presented here, I'm currently
> working on a paper discussing no-governance models of geoengineering control
> http://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/338853
> <http://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/338853>
> Engineered Dependency: The Threat of Forced Choice through Plutocratic
> Influence in Geoengineereing and Climate Change
>
> Gool, V.J. van (2016) Faculty of Humanities Theses
>
> Abstract
>
> Anthropogenic climate change is likely to have dire consequences for our
> environment. As UNFCCC intentions to limit the increase of the global mean
> temperature to 2°C become increasingly improbable through the mitigation of
> greenhouse gas emissions alone, geoengineering techniques are gaining in
> attention. Large-scale implementation of such techniques would necessarily
> require centralised coordination, thereby risking top-down control over means
> that affect the environment as a whole. In the absence of clearly defined
> structures of regulation, the current, largely void, governance of
> geoengineering could well compound the dependency of individuals unable to
> exert influence over geoengineering. Alongside other players, wealthy
> individuals who finance the research and development of various
> geoengineering technologies, procure an ability to influence the
> commissioning of these, as well as the discussion surrounding climate change.
> While their influence over such matters is of a relatively arbitrary nature,
> it creates a very real dependency for others that, even when the possibility
> for exercising influence is not acted upon, can curtail the freedom of others
> to control their behaviours through unforced choice. Combining a republican
> concern for the possibility of domination with the Gewirthian notion of
> agency, basic conditions for agency can be found imperil by geoengineering.
> Therefore, cause is found for individuals to object to it in its current form.
>
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