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The Hazy Ethics of Solar Radiation Management: Examining the Moral
Turpitudes of Aerosol Geoengineering

Any humane and responsible person must conclude that if the ends,
however desirable, areuncertain and the means are horrible and
certain, these means must not be employed.” -Howard Zinn

Future historians will surely regard the passage between the twenty
and twenty-firstcentury as the first period where human activity was
recognized to distinctly alter the biogeochemical makeup of Earth’s
atmosphere. The greater dilemma, however, is whether disruption of the
Holocene climate will arise from unintentional, unabated greenhouse
gasemissions alone, or will governments, perhaps unilaterally, inject
aerosols (particles such assulfates or aluminum nanoparticles to act
as cloud-formation precursors) into the troposphere andstratosphere in
an attempt to lower the final amount of solar energy which reaches
Earth. While solar radiation management (SRM) or stratospheric aerosol
geoengineering (SAG) may have theostensible merit of counterbalancing
the warming associated with the presence of increased greenhouse gases
in the atmosphere, this would surely mark the end of the “natural
world” or wilderness. While this might be considered semantics by
some, even David Keith, perhaps themost eminent proponent of
geoengineering in the public space, understands that, “humanity would
henceforth need to acknowledge that they are living in a zoo, playing
the role of both the animals  and the zookeepers” <continues>

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