Why Solar Radiation Management Geoengineering and Democracy Won't Mix
By B. Szerszynski, M. Kearnes, P. Macnaghten, R. Owen, J. Stilgoe. 2013
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In this paper we argue that recent policy treatments of solar radiation management (SRM) have insufficiently addressed its potential implications for contemporary political systems. Exploring the emerging ‘social constitution’ of SRM, we outline four reasons why this is likely to pose immense challenges to liberal democratic politics: that the unequal distribution of and uncertainties about SRM impacts will cause conflicts within existing institutions; that SRM will act at the planetary level and necessitate autocratic governance; that the motivations for SRM will always be plural and unstable; and that SRM will become conditioned by economic forces. Keywords: solar radiation management, geoengineering, governance, politics, democracy, social constitution of technology
Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
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- Machine learning, social learning and the governance of self-driving cars (2018, background): “Work in science and technology studies (STS) has gone some way towards explaining the social constitution of technologies such as nuclear power, genetically modified foods, nanotechnology and geoengineering (Kearnes et al., 2006; Szerszynski et al., 2013; Winner, 1980).”