I agree with Ken's stance. There's a legal approach to this problem, which has been widely applied in a range of scenarios and jurisdictions. This is based variously on the "good Samaritan" or emergency responder legislation or case law.
The central issue is thus : if a good faith intervention is made to address a problem or crisis, who is liable for damage thus caused? To express in a practical example : who should pay for cleaning the carpets if the fireman's muddy boots cause stains? This is particularly relevant when the mud is in a neighbour's house, not the householder's. I'm hoping to work this discussion up into a paper, and if anyone is interested in collaboration, please let me know. A On 21 Aug 2014 11:00, "Ken Caldeira" <[email protected]> wrote: > I heard much more talk at CEC14 about reducing risk posed by attempts to > reduce risk from climate change than I heard about attempts to reduce risk > from climate change. > > There was what seemed to me to be a dangerous meme of geoengineering > exceptionalism, that for some reason geoengineering research should be > treated differently than other forms of research. > > With rare exception, shouldn't all research, especially publicly funded > research, be open and transparent, make underlying data available, be > sensitive to social needs and concerns, seek to minimize risk, seek > appropriate public input, etc? There is nothing exceptional > about geoengineering research. > > I started out the meeting asking two questions: > > 1. What is the problem? > 2. What is so special? > > My answer to the first question is that the problem is how to reduce risk > from climate change. > > My answer to the second question is that there is nothing special about > geoengineering research -- let's see an end to 'geoengineering > exceptionalism'. > > > > > > -- > _______________ > Ken Caldeira > > Carnegie Institution for Science > Dept of Global Ecology > 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305 USA > +1 650 704 7212 [email protected] > http://dge.stanford.edu/labs/caldeiralab > https://twitter.com/KenCaldeira > > Assistant: Dawn Ross <[email protected]> > > > -- > 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 [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
