Engineering the Climate The Ethics of Solar Radiation Management

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• ISBN13: 9780739175408
• ISBN10: 0739175408
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-06-28
• Publisher: Lexington Books

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

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. ix
The Extraordinary Ethics of Solar Radiation Management	p. 1
Present and Future Generations	p. 13
Geoengineering, Solidarity, and Moral Risk	p. 15
Might Solar Radiation Management Constitute a Dilemma?	p. 33
Domination and the Ethics of Solar Radiation Management	p. 43
Marginalized, Vulnerable, and Voiceless Populations	p. 63
Indigenous Peoples, Solar Radiation Management, and Consent	p. 65
Solar Radiation Management and Vulnerable Populations: The Moral Deficit and its Prospects	p. 77
Solar Radiation Management and Nonhuman Species	p. 95
Moral Hazards and Hidden Benefits	p. 111
The World That Would Have Been: Moral Hazard Arguments Against Geoengineering	p. 113
Climate Remediation to Address Social Development Challenges: Going Beyond Cost-Benefit and Risk Approaches to Assessing Solar Radiation Management	p. 133
Ethics of Framing and Rhetoric	p. 149
Insurance Policy or Technological Fix? The Ethical Implications of Framing Solar Radiation Management	p. 151
Public Concerns about the Ethics of Solar Radiation Management	p. 169
The Cultural Milieu	p. 187
The Setting of the Scene: Technological Fixes and the Design of the Good Life	p. 189
Between Babel and Pelagius: Religion, Theology, and Geoengineering	p. 201
Making Climates: Solar Radiation Management and the Ethics of Fabrication	p. 221
Bibliography	p. 237
Index	p. 255
Contributors	p. 263
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