"Geoengineering and Environmental Ethics" by Dane Scott
Firstly, I want to point out that I find it awesome that we are able to literally able to control the climate. The progression of the human was race is astonishingly impressive. Given the lack of legal responsibility operations have to operate among restrictive parameters to stop climate change, I find the discussion of the ethics of geoengineering is silly. Assuming we believe that the current state of the world is operating ethically, "ethically" meaning "is legal," then there is absolutely no argument against permissing geoengineering. There is a "long-term" argument that geoengineering may not be helpful in the first place (technocratic and instrumentalis), but if that was point was supposed to be false then there is not argument against it given the person feels an obligation to protect earth. I find Drengson's statement that humans are not "power as masters and controllers of nature" to be a bit ironic. Humans, a large contributor ...