The Ethical Challenges Lecture Event

Geoengineering: Fantasies of Control

Proposals to research and test climate engineering as a response to the climate crisis are becoming more mainstream. Advocates for geoengineering tell persuasive stories about how these untested technologies could buy us time for aggressive greenhouse gas emissions, could protect the world's poor, and are owed by us to future people who might face the climate catastrophes we bequeath to them. In this talk I dissect the fantasies of control that underlie many of these arguments for accelerated research and development of geoengineering. I argue that, from an ethical point of view, we ought to be deeply worried about these fantasies of control because of how they make the dangers created by geoengineering appear to be more manageable than they are.  

This years lecture will be given by Professor Catriona McKinnon who is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Exeter.

 

This lecture will take place via Microsoft Teams. Please ensure you book a place to receive the meeting link. The deadline for bookings is 3pm on the day of the seminar (09/12/21).