While several of the concerns expressed in the document bear some consideration, I must say I'm discouraged by the overall thinking behind a priori opposition to climate engineering technology. By analogy, it would be like opposing the development of dentistry technologies because they might allow you to continue eating sugar without damaging your teeth.
The thinking seems to be rooted in the notion that actions with negative side effects are morally depraved (irrespective of their concomitant benefits), and that remedying those side effects only serves to *worsen* the depravity rather than alleviate it. I suspect a psychology that valorizes self-deprivation and self-flaggelation is at work here, but that isn't my field. Regardless of whatever psychology is involved, I think it is clear that this orientation toward any specific technology cannot withstand any scrutiny since countless examples of its hypocrisy (e.g. the benefits of dentistry and all the other accouterments of modernity) immediately emerge. -- Adam Dorr PhD Candidate University of California Los Angeles School of Public Affairs [email protected] [email protected] www.adamdorr.com On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 1:08 PM, Andrew Lockley <[email protected]> wrote: > Climate change, smoke and mirrors > > Latest missive from etc group. > > A > > -- > 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 https://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 https://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
