https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-72372-9_7
Geoengineering and the Question of Weakened Resolve
- David A. Dana
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- Abstract
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- One of the most-discussed topics in the social science literature
regarding geoengineering is the inter-relationship between geoengineering
and climate change mitigation. This literature has two distinct strands.
What we might call Strand # 1 assumes that there may be some optimal mix of
geoengineering and mitigation from a welfare economics perspective, and
explores what an optimal mix might be and under what conditions it might
obtain. What we might call Strand #2 of the literature builds on the
recognition that global mitigation efforts have been wildly sub-optimal and
that a huge increase in mitigation efforts, as a normative matter, is
needed for the sake of current and future generations. Strand # 2
recognizes, too, that mitigation is not easy, it is expensive, it requires
individual and collective changes in behavior, it poses a threat to
entrenched, powerful economic interests, and it implicates complicated
questions as to who exactly should bear the costs of mitigation and in what
measure.
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