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9780739175408

Engineering the Climate The Ethics of Solar Radiation Management

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    9780739175408

  • ISBN10:

    0739175408

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2012-06-28
  • Publisher: Lexington Books
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Summary

Engineering the Climate: The Ethics of Solar Radiation Management discusses the ethical issues associated with deliberately engineering a cooler climate to combat global warming. Climate engineering has recently experienced a surge of interest given the growing likelihood that the global community will fail to limit the temperature increases associated with greenhouse gases to safe levels. While there is no doubt it is a technically exciting prospect, taking intentional control of the earth's climate would be an unprecedented step in environmental management, raising a number of difficult ethical questions.

Author Biography

Christopher J. Preston is associate professor of environmental ethics at the University of Montana. His publications include Saving Creation: Nature and Faith in the Life of Holmes Rolston, III and Grounding Knowledge: Environmental Philosophy, Epistemology, and Place, as well as a co-edited collection of essays titled Nature, Value, and Duty: Life on Earth with-Holmes Rolston, III.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgmentsp. vii
Introductionp. ix
The Extraordinary Ethics of Solar Radiation Managementp. 1
Present and Future Generationsp. 13
Geoengineering, Solidarity, and Moral Riskp. 15
Might Solar Radiation Management Constitute a Dilemma?p. 33
Domination and the Ethics of Solar Radiation Managementp. 43
Marginalized, Vulnerable, and Voiceless Populationsp. 63
Indigenous Peoples, Solar Radiation Management, and Consentp. 65
Solar Radiation Management and Vulnerable Populations: The Moral Deficit and its Prospectsp. 77
Solar Radiation Management and Nonhuman Speciesp. 95
Moral Hazards and Hidden Benefitsp. 111
The World That Would Have Been: Moral Hazard Arguments Against Geoengineeringp. 113
Climate Remediation to Address Social Development Challenges: Going Beyond Cost-Benefit and Risk Approaches to Assessing Solar Radiation Managementp. 133
Ethics of Framing and Rhetoricp. 149
Insurance Policy or Technological Fix? The Ethical Implications of Framing Solar Radiation Managementp. 151
Public Concerns about the Ethics of Solar Radiation Managementp. 169
The Cultural Milieup. 187
The Setting of the Scene: Technological Fixes and the Design of the Good Lifep. 189
Between Babel and Pelagius: Religion, Theology, and Geoengineeringp. 201
Making Climates: Solar Radiation Management and the Ethics of Fabricationp. 221
Bibliographyp. 237
Indexp. 255
Contributorsp. 263
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