https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629618305140
Energy Research & Social Science <https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/22146296> Volume 44 <https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/22146296/44/supp/C>, October 2018, Pages 209–221 [image: Cover image] <https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/22146296/44/supp/C> Original research article Whose climate and whose ethics? Conceptions of justice in solar geoengineering modelling - Duncan P. McLaren <https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629618305140#> <d.mcla...@lancaster.ac.uk> Show more https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2018.05.021Get rights and content <https://s100.copyright.com/AppDispatchServlet?publisherName=ELS&contentID=S2214629618305140&orderBeanReset=true> ------------------------------ Highlights • Geoengineering modeling typically embodies unexplored utilitarian ideas of justice. • Geoengineering modeling presumptions and practices may help deter mitigation. • Geoengineering models should be used as experimental sandpits not truth-machines. ------------------------------ Abstract The role of underlying assumptions about justice in the construction of climate geoengineering knowledge is explored, based on a review of climate modelling studies focused on stratospheric aerosol injection. Such emerging technologies would create distinctively new climates, closer to the present climate than those resulting from unabated emissions; but with different winners and losers, in part as a result of implications for energy systems. Embedded presuppositions about the nature and practice of modelling are exposed, as are unexplored and narrow utilitarian and distributional conceptions of justice. The implications of these underlying assumptions and values for the discourses of climate geoengineering are considered. It is argued that they obscure the identification and consideration of a range of potential injustices arising in the pursuit of climate geoengineering; and create and reproduce asymmetries in power regarding the discourses and evaluations of climate geoengineering prospects. In particular, optimistic climate geoengineering discourses risk sustaining elite interests in high-carbon energy economies. Some suggestions are offered to improve the design, deployment and interpretation of climate engineering models in trans-disciplinary research so as to mitigate these problems. Keywords - Geoengineering; - Justice; - Modeling; - Climate policy; - Stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to geoengineering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to geoengineering@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
