This framing of should engineers play God assumes that those who have the
ability and motivation to do research also have the ability and motivation
to deploy, making it little more than a fantastical science fiction story
dressed up in quasi-religious garb.
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Ken Caldeira
Carnegie
Fair enough, but I don't know of any researchers in this field (as
represented by those on this list) who propose to play God or make
deployment decisions about geoengineering. Scientists and engineers
propose to develop different options for managing risk, and leave it to
accountable
Instead of being defensive, consider that to many people the whole activity is
playing God. The distinction between researchers and decisionmakers is second
order.
From: Josh Horton [mailto:joshuahorton...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2012 02:52 PM
To: geoengineering@googlegroups.com
What I found particularly objectionable was that the God framing and
inaccurate representation of our efforts (as Josh noted) was done by a
magazine intended to be representing the technical community, just the type
of communication that we would hope would be accurate in explaining a
technical
