Every major scientific organization has codes of ethics to which their practitioners and researchers must abide. Almost all major research institutions have Institutional Review Boards which are committed to ensuring that scientific research meets with basic ethical protocols. There are reams of articles on the ethics of research and on the perils of not attending to the multitudinous ethical concerns in play. Ethics is not in any respect limited to the implementation of technologies and it will not go away, no matter how much you may wish it to.
Benjamin Hale Assistant Professor/Graduate Director (ENVS) Philosophy <http://www.colorado.edu/philosophy> and Environmental Studies <http://envs.colorado.edu/> University of Colorado, Boulder Tel: 303 735-3624; Fax: 303 735-1576 http://www.practicalreason.com <http://www.practicalreason.com/> http://cruelmistress.wordpress.com <http://cruelmistress.wordpress.com/> Ethics, Policy <http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/cepe> & Environment From: geoengineering@googlegroups.com [mailto:geoengineering@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of euggor...@comcast.net Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2012 4:10 PM To: christopherpreston1...@gmail.com Cc: geoengineering@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [geo] Re: 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 Nobody says it is hostle. Ethics just has no role in influencing research and development of basic principles of geoengineering. As soon as you say 'course of action' and apply it to geoengineering you have lost the argument. What you are talking about is implementation and geoengineers will not decide that but will participate in discussion with others including ethicists. Give up the transparent argument. It doesn't become ethicists. _____ From: "Christopher Preston" <christopherpreston1...@gmail.com> To: geoengineering@googlegroups.com Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2012 7:11:20 AM Subject: [geo] Re: 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 Yes....there are activist groups set on "preventing research" and trying to "stymie" progress in understanding geoengineering. Ethicists, however, do something much different....generating discussion about values, uncovering the complexities about participation and just distribution of goods, looking for both moral benefits and moral costs of a proposed course of action, seeking ways to broaden the conversation. There is a much richer discussion here that we can all participate in as research into geoengineering picks up pace......but it requires abandoning the assumption that ethics is always hostile to scientific research. Christopher On Sunday, November 11, 2012 12:34:01 AM UTC, andrewjlockley wrote: 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/geoengineering/-/wBkt8mSdkpcJ. To post to this group, send email to geoengineering@googlegroups.com. 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