Leverhulme Lecture: Professor Stephen Gardiner - Generationally Parochial Geoengineering
Stephen M. Gardiner is Professor of Philosophy and Ben Rabinowitz Endowed Professor of Human Dimensions of the Environment at the University of Washington, Seattle.
| A Global Systems Institute seminar | |
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| Date | 13 September 2021 |
| Time | 17:00 to 18:30 |
| Place | Zoom A Zoom link will be sent out prior to the webinar. If you are not on the GSI mailing list please contact infoGSI@exeter.ac.uk to receive more information |
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Abstract
Much talk of geoengineering in public and in policy tends to assume that interventions will benefit both the current generation and future generations more-or-less equally. In this talk, we question this assumption and argue that interventions that are unjust towards future generations are both possible and likely. We illustrate this through a discussion of the leading example of solar radiation management, stratospheric sulphate injection (SSI).
His main areas of interest are ethical theory, political philosophy and environmental ethics. His research focuses on global environmental problems (especially climate change), future generations, and virtue ethics.
Steve has published on a diverse range of topics including intergenerational justice, the ethics of geoengineering, the precautionary principle, climate justice, Aristotle's account of the reciprocity of the virtues, Seneca's approach to virtuous moral rules, and Socrates' political philosophy. His most recent books are Debating Climate Ethics (Oxford, 2016), a "for and against" book on climate justice, with David Weisbach, and the Oxford Handbook on Environmental Ethics (Oxford, 2016), co-edited with Allen Thompson, and The Ethics of "Geoengineering" the Global Climate (Routledge, 2020), co-edited with Catriona McKinnon and Augustin Fragniere.
