https://www.academia.edu/15347808/Geoengineering_Agent-Regret_and_the_Lesser_of_Two_Evils_Argument
Geoengineering, Agent-Regret, and the Lesser of Two Evils Argument Pre-Print (Pre-Refereed) Version Toby Svoboda (Fairfield University) If citing, please consult the published version in Environmental Ethics 37:2 (2015), 207-220, doi: 10.5840/enviroethics201537218 Abstract According to the “Lesser of Two Evils Argument , ” deployment of solar radiation management (SRM) geoengineering in a climate emergency would be morally justified because it likely would be the best option available. A prominent objection to this argument is that a climate emergency might constitute a genuine moral dilemma in which SRM would be impermissible even if it was the best option. However, while conceiving of a climate emergency as a moral dilemma accounts for some ethical concerns about SRM, it requires the controversial claim that there are genuine moral dilemmas, and it potentially undermines moral action-guidance in emergency scenarios. Instead, I argue that it is better to conceive of climate emergencies as situations calling for agent-regret. This allows us coherently to hold that SRM may be morally problematic even if it ought to be deployed in some scenarios -- 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.
