"Fixing" climate change through carbon capture and storage : situating industrial risk cultures

This paper focuses particularly on conceptions of ethics and publics in the industrial worldview: that is, how publics are considered lacking knowledge and thereby problematic. Thus, the second task of the paper is to criticize the fact that public understanding of CCS is framed itself as a major “risk” of CCS development. Public support for CCS, in both a normative and financial sense, must be actively constructed by companies through community consultation, public relations and government liaison. The industrial worldview of public opposition places it as a discrete risk to projects that should be managed alongside technoscientific risks such as leakage from pipelines or geosequestration sites.