Calculating the Incalculable: Is SAI the Lesser of Two Evils?
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Hulme, Mike https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1273-7662
Abstract
Christopher J. Preston’s use of the doctrine of double effect to claim that hypothetical climate engineers might very well be less culpable for climate harms than those who continue to emit greenhouse gases is unpersuasive. His argument rests shakily on the ability to determine and quantify climate harms and to distinguish forensically between their causes. He is also largely silent about the distributional effects of these harms and their ethical and political ramifications.
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climate engineering, stratospheric aerosol injection, doctrine of double effect, unintended harms, distributional climate impacts
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Ethics & International Affairs
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0892-6794
1747-7093
1747-7093
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31
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Cambridge University Press