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Book SynopsisIn the face of limited time and escalating impacts, some scientists and politicians are talking about attempting grand technological interventions into the Earth's basic physical and biological systems (geoengineering) to combat global warming. Early ideas include spraying particles into the stratosphere to block some incoming sunlight, or enhancing natural biological systems to withdraw carbon dioxide from the atmosphere at a higher rate. Such technologies are highly speculative and scientific development of them has barely begun.
Nevertheless, it is widely recognized that geoengineering raises critical questions about who will control planetary interventions, and what responsibilities they will have. Central to these questions are issues of justice and political legitimacy. For instance, while some claim that climate risks are so severe that geoengineering must be attempted, others insist that the current global order is so unjust that interventions are highly likely to be i
Table of Contents
Introduction: Geoengineering, Political Legitimacy and Justice
1. The Tollgate Principles for the Governance of Geoengineering: Moving Beyond the Oxford Principles to an Ethically More Robust Approach
2. Climate Change, Climate Engineering, and the "Global Poor": What Does Justice Require?
3. Indigeneity in Geoengineering Discourses: Some Considerations
4. Recognitional Justice, Climate Engineering, and the Care Approach
5. Institutional Legitimacy and Geoengineering Governance
6. Legitimacy and Non-Domination in Solar Radiation Management Research
7. Toward Legitimate Governance of Solar Geoengineering Research: A Role for Sub-State Actors
8. Fighting risk with risk: solar radiation management, regulatory drift, and minimal justice
9. The Panglossian politics of the geoclique
10. Democratic authority to geoengineer
11. A mission-driven research program on solar geoengineering could promote justice andlegitimacy
12. Geoengineering the climate and ethical challenges: what we can learn from moral emotions and art
