https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/japp.12643

*Author*
Britta Clark
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*First published: 06 January 2023*

https://doi.org/10.1111/japp.12643

*ABSTRACT*

*Should high-income countries engage in solar geoengineering research and
possible deployment*? On the assumption that the speed of the energy
transition will be insufficient to abate catastrophic climate impacts,
research into solar geoengineering begins to look like a technically and
socially feasible route to mitigate such impacts. But on the assumption
that a rapid and relatively just energy transition is still within the
realm of political possibility, research into solar geoengineering looks
more like an ideological tool designed to divert time and resources from
less risky climate solutions. At the heart of debates over solar
geoengineering, then, is disagreement over what political actors can be
expected to do in the future. In this article, I argue that both objectors
to and proponents of solar geoengineering research often make background
assumptions regarding expected future actions that are either (a)
inaccurate or (b) inconsistent. I propose an account of expected future
actions that avoids these problems and sketch what the debate over solar
geoengineering looks like with these assumptions in place.

*Citation*: Clark, B. (2023). How to Argue about Solar Geoengineering. *Journal
of Applied Philosophy*.

*Source: Wiley Online Library*

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