Do We Have a Residual Obligation to Engineer the Climate, as a Matter of Justice?

In Christopher J. Preston, Climate Justice and Geoengineering: Ethics and Policy in the Anthropocene. Rowman & Littlefield International (2016)
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This article investigates whether geoengineering can be justified as a residual obligation given that demands related to mitigating emissions of greenhouse gases are left unfulfilled due to conflicting with other demands. Ultimately, it is found that geoengineering cannot be justified due to, amongst other reasons, risks.

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