Geoengineering the climate and ethical challenges: what we can learn from moral emotions and art

Roeser, Sabine; Taebi, Behnam; Doorn, Neelke

doi:10.1080/13698230.2020.1694225

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“…Consider a couple of relevant issues. The future of geoengineering remains to be seen: in addition to posing serious risks, many experimental technologies will have large-scale aesthetic effects, for example, stratospheric aerosol injection will result in changing the colour of the sky (Roeser et al 2019). When considering energy transitions away from oil and coal, various 13.…”

Section: Gcc and The Relationship Between Aesthetic And Ethical Valuesmentioning

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Global Climate Change and Aesthetics

Brady¹

2022

Environmental Values

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What kinds of issues does the global crisis of climate change present to aesthetics, and how will they challenge the field to respond? This paper argues that a new research agenda is needed for aesthetics with respect to global climate change (GCC) and outlines a set of foundational issues which are especially pressing: (1) attention to environments that have been neglected by philosophers, for example, the cryosphere and aerosphere; (2) negative aesthetics of environment, in order to grasp aesthetic experiences, meanings, and dis/values in light of the catastrophic effects of GCC; (3) bringing intergenerational thinking into aesthetics through concepts of temporality and ‘future aesthetics’ (4) understanding the relationship between aesthetic and ethical values as they arise in regard to GCC.

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Section: Gcc and The Relationship Between Aesthetic And Ethical Valuesmentioning

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Global Climate Change and Aesthetics

Brady¹

2022

Environmental Values

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“…Concerns about distributive justice in SRM are raised also from the viewpoints of virtue ethics and care ethics. From the perspectives of virtue and care ethics, the assessment is that the principle of fairness will not be respected in the SRM scenario [43,44].…”

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The Ethical Desirability of Geoengineering: Challenges to Justice

Pamplany¹

2021

Bioethics in Medicine and Society

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Geoengineering or climate engineering is defined as a deliberate and intentional intervention into the earth system to combat dangerous climate change. Solar Radiation Management (SRM) and Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) are two dominant approaches in geoengineering. From an ethical point of view, both these approaches pose serious challenges to justice from the intergenerational, distributive and procedural point of view. Intergenerational equity and the risk-transfer to future generations suggest major challenges to justice in geoengineering. Abdicating our responsibility is a form of injustice to future generations. Unequal distribution of cost and benefits and benefits and harms is a major challenge to distributive justice in SRM. Paying compensation to those harmed by SRM is presented as a way out of ethical deliberations. But there are serious challenges with regard to compensation for SRM, such as, who ought to pay the compensation, who are the beneficiaries and how much to pay. Participation across vulnerable sections alongside indigenous people and their central involvement remains a concern of procedural justice. Food justice is at stake as the adverse impact of SRM on agriculture and food production is considered to be a major challenge.

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“…For instance in bioethics where ethical uncertainties "cannot be eliminated by resolving (even imagining that we could) the factual dimension of uncertainty" (Cribb, 2020). Another example is in ethics of technology and in dealing with ethically laden uncertainties in the governance of geoengineering technologies such as Solar Radiation Management (Roeser, Taebi, & Doorn, 2019), for instance in establishing which ethical principle should be applied for compensation scheme for geoengineering technologies (Svoboda & Irvine, 2014).…”

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Governing climate risks in the face of normative uncertainties

Taebi

Kwakkel

Kermisch

2020

WIREs Climate Change

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Governing risks is not only a technical matter, but also a matter of ethical and societal considerations. In this article, we argue that in addition to scientific and technical uncertainties, we need to also address normative uncertainties of risk decisions. We define normative uncertainties as situations where there are different partially morally defensible ‐‐ but incompatible ‐‐ options or courses of action, or ones in which there is no fully morally defensible option. We conceptualize normative uncertainties, distinguishing between the four categories of evolutionary, theoretical, conceptual, and epistemic normative uncertainties. We will show different instances of normative uncertainties in climate adaptation strategies. We finally present two methods for identifying and dealing with normative uncertainties, namely, the Wide Reflective Equilibrium and adaptive planning. Situations of normative uncertainties have always been and will continue to be present in risk decisions and they have often been dealt with in an implicit manner. In this article, we make them explicit, which could lead to better morally informed and justified decisions about climate risks. This article is categorized under: Climate, Nature, and Ethics > Ethics and Climate Change.

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Geoengineering the climate and ethical challenges: what we can learn from moral emotions and art

Cited by 15 publications

References 58 publications

Global Climate Change and Aesthetics

Global Climate Change and Aesthetics

The Ethical Desirability of Geoengineering: Challenges to Justice

Governing climate risks in the face of normative uncertainties

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