The full title of the article is: GUNS DO KILL PEOPLE: REASONS TO WORRY ABOUT MORAL HAZARD IN GEOENGINEERING
Guns do kill people, so does climate change. We don't disarm ourselves in the face of immoral forces like ISIS, drug cartels, and N. Korea. Since we continue to immorally emit CO2, might it be a moral hazard not to consider the use of GE and whatever else might be effective in the interest of trying to preserve Earth habitability? When are extreme measures in defense of Earth habitability a vice*? Answer: when research shows that the monetary, environmental, and societal costs and negative impacts outweigh the benefits, or when air CO2 is stabilized at "safe" levels by other means. Greg *grudging nod to B. Goldwater >________________________________ > From: Duncan McLaren <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Tuesday, February 3, 2015 12:11 AM >Subject: [geo] Blog posting on moral hazard at FCEA > > > >Andrew asked me to post this to the list. Please feel free to give feedback or >comments - ideally on the FCEA site. > >As FCEA (formerly WGC) introduced it on their FB page: > > >'Moral hazard' is a term used more and more as people talk about whether or >not we should be doing climate engineering research. It is most often >understood to express a concern that if climate engineering research moves >forward, political leaders and citizens will feel less need to act quickly to >reduce emissions of carbon and other GHGs. >Many advocates of climate engineering research dismiss the term 'moral hazard' >as misapplied, and the notion it describes as wrongheaded speculation. In a >guest post, Duncan McLaren of Lancaster University responds that while >"research into climate engineering is justified, dismissing the risk of moral >hazard is not." >He says "we must properly recognize the social implications of technology, and >therefore should already be gravely worried about the moral hazard effects of >geoengineering."What do you think? >http://dcgeoconsortium.org/2015/02/01/guns-do-kill-people/ > > > > >-- >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.
