Andrew asked me to post this to the list. Please feel free to give feedback or comments - ideally on the FCEA site.
As FCEA (formerly WGC) introduced it on their FB page: 'Moral hazard' is a term used more and more as people talk about whether or not we should be doing climate engineering research. It is most often understood to express a concern that if climate engineering research moves forward, political leaders and citizens will feel less need to act quickly to reduce emissions of carbon and other GHGs. Many advocates of climate engineering research dismiss the term 'moral hazard' as misapplied, and the notion it describes as wrongheaded speculation. In a guest post, Duncan McLaren of Lancaster University responds that while "research into climate engineering is justified, dismissing the risk of moral hazard is not." He says "we must properly recognize the social implications of technology, and therefore should already be gravely worried about the moral hazard effects of geoengineering." What do you think? http://dcgeoconsortium.org/2015/02/01/guns-do-kill-people/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to geoengineering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to geoengineering@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
