Response to Svoboda and Irvine

摘要

In this issue, Svoboda and Irvine (Svoboda & Irvine, 2014) offer the most in-depth consideration thus far of possible compensation for harm from solar radiation management (SRM) geoengineering. This topic is indeed treacherous terrain, pulling together multiple complex debates, ethical and otherwise. Their description of the technical challenges to determining damages and causation in particular are illuminating. The reader cannot help, though, but be left with the sense that both SRM and compensation are futile efforts, bound to do more harm than good.