ABSTRACT

Without the technologies that we use every day, we would not be able to change the climate in the way that we currently are. But despite the radically technological nature of climate change, discussions have thus far benefitted only sporadically from insights from philosophy of technology. Why is this, and how can we change this? This chapter will tackle these questions in three steps. First, it gives a brief overview of the general avenues along which climate change is typically discussed, and makes some suggestions for how philosophy of technology may inform those discourses. Second, it sketches some alternative routes to understand climate change starting with perspectives emerged in philosophy of technology. And finally, it turns the problem around and points out how climate change lays bare a problem with recent trends in philosophy of technology.