What? No concern about the "interests" of plants and microbes, without which
you can kiss your furry animal friends goodbye? Animalcentrist! Anyway, by all
means let's conduct "comparative analyses of animal biological well-being under
geoengineered [<2dgC warming] and non-geoengineered climates [>2degC warming]"
to determine just how effective the former path is in conserving present life
on Earth.Greg
On Wednesday, October 15, 2025 at 05:50:33 AM PDT, Geoengineering News
<[email protected]> wrote:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-025-04039-7
Authors: Leonie N. Bossert
14 October 2025
Abstract Anthropogenic climate change profoundly impacts nonhuman animals,
leading to habitat destruction, resource scarcity, and extreme weather events.
Despite these consequences, ethical discussions on climate change, including
the debate on geoengineering, remain predominantly anthropocentric.
Geoengineering, defined as the deliberate, large-scale manipulation of Earth's
climate to counteract climate change, also has significant implications for
nonhuman animals. This article advocates a non-anthropocentric perspective on
geoengineering, emphasizing the need for ethical consideration of nonhuman
animals within justice debates. It identifies key research gaps, including
ethical justifications for broadening geoengineering debates to nonhuman
animals, comparative analyses of animal well-being under geoengineered and
non-geoengineered climates, and political representation of nonhuman animal
interests. In the last part, the article briefly reflects on the research gaps
that exist for a theory of interspecies justice in the context of marine cloud
brightening. By doing so, the article calls for integrating animals' interests
into the broader climate ethics discourse and urges further ethical and
interdisciplinary research to assess the implications of climate interventions,
such as the various geoengineering methods, on nonhuman animals.
Source: Springer Link
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