If a Climate Emergency is Possible, is Everything Permitted? Reflections on Some Ethically Slippery Arguments for Geoengineering
Professor Stephen Gardiner (University of Washington)

July 31, 2014, 8:30am - 9:30am
Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, University of Melbourne

Yasuko Hiraoka Myer Room
Sidney Myer Asia Centre
Melbourne
Australia

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In the face of escalating climate change, some scientists are pushing for a serious research program on a dramatic global "techno-fix": the injection of sulphate particles into the stratosphere to block incoming sunlight.  This approach to geoengineering is often justified by appeal to the threat of a climate emergency.  Stepehen argues that this argument threatens to be ethically short-sighted and to encourage creative myopia.  Even if the emergency argument is in some sense valid, it misses much of what is at stake in thinking about geoengineering, especially from an ethical point of view.

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