TY - JOUR
T1 - Maintenance Required
T2 - The Ethics of Geoengineering and Post-Implementation Scenarios
AU - Wong, Pak Hang
N1 - This work was conducted at the Institute for Science, Innovation and Society and Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics as part of the Climate Geoengineering Governance Project (http://geoengineeringgovernance.org) funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), grant ES/J007730/1.The author would like to thank for helpful comments from Julian Savulescu, Steve Rayner, Clare Hayward, and Nils Markusson.
PY - 2014/5
Y1 - 2014/5
N2 - The ethics of geoengineering has gained momentum in recent academic debate. The current debates, however, is typically framed in terms of (i) the first-order question about the moral permissibility of geoengineering, and (ii) the second-order question about the distributive and compensatory issues associated with geoengineering. Both (i) and (ii) are central to decision-making about geoengineering, but they have not cover all ethical issues related to geoengineering. I argue that a preoccupation with (i) and (ii) may lead to an oversight of post-implementation scenarios (PISs), which introduce different ethical issues relevant to decision-making on geoengineering. More specifically, I use the requirement of maintenance for geoengineering as an example to draw attention to PISs, and to illustrate the limit of the existing discussion in the ethics of geoengineering.
AB - The ethics of geoengineering has gained momentum in recent academic debate. The current debates, however, is typically framed in terms of (i) the first-order question about the moral permissibility of geoengineering, and (ii) the second-order question about the distributive and compensatory issues associated with geoengineering. Both (i) and (ii) are central to decision-making about geoengineering, but they have not cover all ethical issues related to geoengineering. I argue that a preoccupation with (i) and (ii) may lead to an oversight of post-implementation scenarios (PISs), which introduce different ethical issues relevant to decision-making on geoengineering. More specifically, I use the requirement of maintenance for geoengineering as an example to draw attention to PISs, and to illustrate the limit of the existing discussion in the ethics of geoengineering.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84905655286&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/21550085.2014.926090
DO - 10.1080/21550085.2014.926090
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:84905655286
SN - 2155-0085
VL - 17
SP - 186
EP - 191
JO - Ethics, Policy and Environment
JF - Ethics, Policy and Environment
IS - 2
ER -
