I don't think that geoengineering brings up any ethical issue that have not been faced from time immemorial.
Since the beginning of time people have made decisions that affect others without getting the consent of everyone ( or everything ) affected. How to get broader participation and how to make just decisions in the absence of universal participation are difficult practical problems but they are not new problems for ethical theorists. Geoengineering raises ethical issues but it doesn't raise any new ethical issues. So, I don't see why ethicists are interested in this topic. With regards to ethics, iIt seems to me that there is nothing new under the sun. Ken Caldeira kcalde...@carnegie.stanford.edu +1 650 704 7212 http://dge.stanford.edu/labs/caldeiralab Sent from a limited-typing keyboard On Nov 11, 2012, at 10:53, Gregory Benford <xbenf...@gmail.com> wrote: > The idea that "ethical merit" can be diagnosed before we know much > about how it works, and how well, is...useless. I find it curious that > the ethicists want to jump on a subject when it's still barely begun. > Reminds me of a decade ago for SRM, about which we still know little, > because we don;t do experiments. > > Gregory Benford > > On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 10:06 AM, RAU greg <gh...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: >> "The wide range of geoengineering technologies currently being discussed >> makes it prudent that each technique should be evaluated individually for >> its ethical merit." >> Amen. - Greg >> >> ________________________________ >> From: Andrew Lockley <andrew.lock...@gmail.com> >> To: geoengineering <geoengineering@googlegroups.com> >> Sent: Sat, November 10, 2012 4:34:02 PM >> Subject: [geo] Ethics and geoengineering: reviewing the moral issues raised >> by solar radiation management and carbon dioxide removal - Preston - 2012 - >> Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change - Wiley Online Library >> >> http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wcc.198/abstract >> >> Ethics and geoengineering: reviewing the moral issues raised by solar >> radiation management and carbon dioxide removal >> >> Christopher J. Preston >> Article first published online: 8 NOV 2012 >> DOI: 10.1002/wcc.198 >> >> Abstract >> >> After two decades of failure by the international community to respond >> adequately to the threat of global climate change, discussions of the >> possibility of geoengineering a cooler climate have recently proliferated. >> Alongside the considerable optimism that these technologies have generated, >> there has also been wide acknowledgement of significant ethical concerns. >> Ethicists, social scientists, and experts in governance have begun the work >> of addressing these concerns. The plethora of ethical issues raised by >> geoengineering creates challenges for those who wish to survey them. The >> issues are here separated out according to the temporal spaces in which they >> first arise. Some crop up when merely contemplating the prospect of >> geoengineering. Others appear as research gets underway. Another set of >> issues attend the actual implementation of the technologies. A further set >> occurs when planning for the cessation of climate engineering. Two cautions >> about this organizational schema are in order. First, even if the issues >> first arise in the temporal spaces identified, they do not stay completely >> contained within them. A good reason to object to the prospect of >> geoengineering, for example, will likely remain a good reason to object to >> its implementation. Second, the ethical concerns intensify or weaken >> depending on the technology under consideration. The wide range of >> geoengineering technologies currently being discussed makes it prudent that >> each technique should be evaluated individually for its ethical merit. >> >> WIREs Clim Change 2012. >> doi: 10.1002/wcc.198 >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "geoengineering" group. >> To post to this group, send email to geoengineering@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> geoengineering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "geoengineering" group. >> To post to this group, send email to geoengineering@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> geoengineering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "geoengineering" group. > To post to this group, send email to geoengineering@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > geoengineering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. 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