Title

Is Aerosol Geoengineering Ethically Preferable to Other Climate Change Strategies?

Authors

Toby Svoboda, Fairfield UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Article Version

Post-print

Publication Date

2012

Abstract

In this paper, I address the question of whether aerosol geoengineering (AG) ought to be deployed as a response to climate change. First, I distinguish AG from emissions mitigation, adaptation, and other geoengineering strategies. Second, I discuss advantages and disadvantages of AG, including its potential to result in substantial harm to some persons. Third, I critique three arguments against AG deployment, suggesting reasons why these arguments should be rejected. Fourth, I consider an argument that, in scenarios in which all available climate change strategies would result in net harm to persons, we ought to adopt that response to climate change which would result in the least net harm. --Author's Description

Comments

Copyright 2012 Indiana University Press. A post-print has been archived here with permission from the copyright holder.

Publication Title

Ethics and the Environment

Repository Citation

Svoboda, Toby, "Is Aerosol Geoengineering Ethically Preferable to Other Climate Change Strategies?" (2012). Philosophy Faculty Publications. 27.
https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/philosophy-facultypubs/27

Published Citation

Svoboda, Toby (2012). Is Aerosol Geoengineering Ethically Preferable to Other Climate Change Strategies? Ethics and the Environment Vol. 17 No. 2. pg 111-135.

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