1st Edition

The Ethics of Climate Engineering Solar Radiation Management and Non-Ideal Justice

By Toby Svoboda Copyright 2017
186 Pages
by Routledge

186 Pages
by Routledge

186 Pages
by Routledge

This book analyzes major ethical issues surrounding the use of climate engineering, particularly solar radiation management (SRM) techniques, which have the potential to reduce some risks of anthropogenic climate change but also carry their own risks of harm and injustice. The book argues that we should approach the ethics of climate engineering via "non-ideal theory," which investigates what... Read more

Introduction

Chapter 1: Benefits

Chapter 2: Distributions

Chapter 3: Decisions

Chapter 4: Virtues

Chapter 5: Dilemmas

Chapter 6: Comparisons

Biography

Toby Svoboda is an assistant professor of philosophy at Fairfield University. He has published in journals such as Environmental Ethics, Environmental Values, and The Journal of Moral Philosophy. He is the author of Duties Regarding Nature: A Kantian Environmental Ethic (Routledge, 2015).

"Svoboda has written a book that does a good job staking a place in the debate around the ethics of solar radiation management (SRM), while still serving as good introduction. It also contributes to growing reflection on the relationship between climate change and non-ideal theories of justice."Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews