Entries tagged with: Geoethics

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Ambition

(Note: an unfinished version of this post was accidentally posted previously.) One of the more interesting panels at the 2012 Aspen Environment Forum was a discussion of whether "nature" was even still a viable concept. It's broadly accepted that humankind...

Posted on July 10, 2012 5:04 PM

Pushing Back Against the Methane Tipping Point

(This is a long piece, but I'm putting it all on the front page because it's a massive issue.) A piece in the latest issue of Science shows that there's a considerable amount of methane (CH4) coming from the East...

Posted on March 9, 2010 10:50 AM

Hacking the Earth (Without Voiding the Warranty)

The talk I gave at the State of Green Business Forum last week is now available on video. Runs about 22 minutes. (There are some inexplicably lengthy shots of the static presentation images, but other than that, it looks pretty...

Posted on February 10, 2010 11:40 AM

A Cold War Over Warming

What happens if global efforts to set and abide by strong carbon emissions cuts fail? The standard answer to a question like this is that "we all suffer." While that's probably true, it misses the point -- we may...

Posted on December 9, 2009 4:22 PM

The Politics of Geoengineering

Geoengineering -- or, as I sometimes call it, re-terraforming the Earth -- is back in the news, with a sobering editorial in today's New York Times by Carnegie's Dr. Ken Caldeira. Caldeira's commentary arrives in the wake of news that...

Posted on October 24, 2007 10:25 PM

Solving the Climate Crisis

With Al Gore and the IPCC wining the Nobel Peace Prize yesterday, lots of people are talking about global warming. The remaining holdouts and dead-enders continue to bray about hoaxes and imaginary disputes, but by and large the dominant focus...

Posted on October 13, 2007 9:46 PM

Christian Science Monitor on the Ethics of Geoengineering

Today's Christian Science Monitor has a thoughtful article on the morality of geoengineering as an option for confronting climate disaster. It's a decent overview of the current thinking on the subject, although it doesn't mention a couple of topics I...

Posted on March 29, 2007 1:27 PM

Open Source Terraforming

Whether we like it or not, geoengineering -- a process I've taken to calling "(re)terraforming the Earth" -- is now on the table as a strategy for dealing with onrushing climate disaster. This isn't because it's a particularly good idea;...

Posted on February 15, 2007 5:27 PM

OtF Core: Geoethical Principles

(Jon Lebkowsky, over in the conversation with Bruce Sterling at the Well, reminded me of one of my favorite and most difficult posts over at WorldChanging, one that's worth bringing over here. It's an exploration of "geoethical principles" -- the...

Posted on January 6, 2007 2:43 PM

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