Some Epistemological Limitations on Possible Climatic, Political, and Socio-economic Futures in Climate Leviathan by Geoff Mann and Joel Wainwright
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https://doi.org/10.18270/rcfc.v23i47.3932Keywords:
anthropogenic climate change, Climate leviathan, speculative philosophy, alternative futures, climate scenarios, Representative Concentration Pathways, Shared Socioeconomic PathwaysAbstract
A philosophical book is analyzed here: Climate Leviathan by Geoff Mann and Joel Wainwright. That book is an extensive argument about some political implications of anthropogenic climate change, expressly, four possible socio-politic futures. Nonetheless, this book has important epistemological limitations on the climate scenarios, based on Representative Concentration Pathways (rcps), used by the ipcc’s Fifth Assessment Report. In response to some of Mann’s and Wainwright’s objections, the main features of another quantitative and qualitative framework used for climate scenarios, with socio-economic factors, are outlined: the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (ssps).
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