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Ethical issues created by geo-engineering proposals

Rock Ethics Institute
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climate change
climate ethics
justice
greenhouse effect
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Economic ethics
Environmental ethics
Technology ethics
Resources ethics
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Climate Ethics
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"Climate change raises profound challenges to justice, equity, and ethics for the entire human race. For instance, governments, organizations, and citizens are called by justice to limit their greenhouse gas emissions to their fair share of global emissions. Further, most of the technical solutions to climate change have environmental, economic, and social impacts that raise additional issues about justice and ethics. Several technologies have been proposed that call for intentionally intervening in the Earth's climate system to mitigate the effects of climate change. These projects are usually referred to under the term "geo-engineering." Most proponents of these technologies agree that geo-engineering projects raise serious ethical and legal issues that need to be examined before these technologies are deployed." (p. 1).
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2007-11
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