A Critical Examination of Geoengineering: Economic and Technological Rationality in Social Context
20 January 2018
Abstract:
Geoengineering—specifically stratospheric aerosol injection—is not only risky, but supports
powerful economic interests, protects an inherently ecologically harmful social formation, relegates
the fundamental social-structural changes needed to address climate change, and is rooted in a vision
of a nature as a set of passive resources that can be fully controlled in line with the demands of
capital.
Link To A Critical Examination of Geoengineering: Economic and Technological Rationality in Social Context
Department of Sociology and Gerontology, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056, USA
Department of Geography, Planning and Recreation, Program in Sustainable Communities,
Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011, USA; brian.petersen@nau.edu
School of Earth Sciences and Sustainability, Program in Sustainable Communities,
Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011, USA; diana.stuart@nau.edu
Correspondence: gunderrm@miamioh.edu; Tel.: +1-513-529-4113