https://www.theglobaljusticenetwork.org/index.php/gjn/article/view/237

Who May Geoengineer: Global Domination, Revolution, and Solar Radiation
Management

Patrick Taylor Smith

Abstract

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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