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The goals and objectives of ‘climate stabilization’ feature heavily in contemporary environmental policy and in this paper we trace the factors that have contributed to the rise of this concept and the scientific ideas behind it. In particular, we explore how the stabilization-based discourse has become dominant through developments in climate science, environmental economics and policymaking. We posit that the fundamental premises behind stabilization targets are badly matched to the actual problem of the intergenerational management of C.C., scientifically and politically, and destined to fail. By extension, we argue that policy proposals for climate stabilization are problematic, infeasible, and hence impede more productive policy action on C.C.. There are gains associated with an expansion and reconsideration of the range of possible policy framings of the problems as well as diminishing anthropogenic contributions to C.C.