Ethical Aspects of Climate Engineering
This study investigates the ethical aspects of deploying and researching into so-called climate engineering methods, i.e. large-scale technical interventions in the climate system with the objective of offsetting anthropogenic climate change. The moral reasons in favour of and against R&D into and deployment of CE methods are analysed by means of argument maps. These argument maps provide an overview of the CE controversy and help to structure the complex debate.
Arguments covered in this an...
Éditeur : KIT Scientific Publishing
Lieu d’édition : Karlsruhe
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 12 janvier 2017
ISBN numérique : 978-2-8218-7434-3
Collection : KIT Scientific Publishing
Année d’édition : 2012
ISBN (Édition imprimée) : 978-3-86644-856-8
Nombre de pages : VII-158
Gregor Betz et Sebastian Cacean
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This study investigates the ethical aspects of deploying and researching into so-called climate engineering methods, i.e. large-scale technical interventions in the climate system with the objective of offsetting anthropogenic climate change. The moral reasons in favour of and against R&D into and deployment of CE methods are analysed by means of argument maps. These argument maps provide an overview of the CE controversy and help to structure the complex debate.
Arguments covered in this analysis include: The central justification of R&D; side-effects of R&D and of deployment; lesser-evil argumentation; two-degree target argumentation; efficiency and feasibility considerations; arguments from ethics of risk; arguments from fairness; geo-political objections; critique of technology and civilization; religious, existentialist, and environmental-ethics arguments; alternative justifications of R&D; lack of R&D alternatives; direct justifications of R&D prohibition; priority of mitigation policies.
Gregor Betz is Juniorprofessor of Philosophy of Science at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and head of the Shared Research Group „Limits and Objectivity of Scientific Foreknowledge: The Case of Energy Outlooks (LOBSTER)“.
Sebastian Cacean is research analyst and PhD student at LOBSTER.

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