The Ethics of Solar Geoengineering
Channel: HMS Center for Bioethics
Date: 24/02/2022

‘Solar geoengineering’ refers to large-scale interventions that attempt to cool the Earth by reflecting a small portion of sunlight back into space. While these proposed interventions seem promising to some concerned about climate change, others see ‘technofixes’ such as solar geoengineering and carbon removal as morally fraught because they seem to absolve actors from taking more difficult steps toward systemic solutions.   
  
Join speaker Dr. Gernot Wagner and moderator Dr. Insoo Hyun to learn more about the science and ethics of solar geoengineering. In this interactive session, Dr. Wagner will urge participants to consider that "moral hazards" are ubiquitous and that especially those opposed to solar geoengineering technology should use it as an opportunity to expand the attention paid to the underlying climate problem in the first place, actively invoking its opposite: "inverse moral hazards." 

Presenter:
Gernot Wagner, PhD
Associated Clinical Professor, NYU Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
Clinical Associate Professor of Environmental Studies and Public Service, NYU Department of Environmental Studies

Moderator:
Insoo Hyun, PhD

This session is part of the Ethics in Research and Biotechnology Consortia series.  More information about the series can be found at https://bioethics.hms.harvard.edu/events/weekly-consortia/ethics-research-and-biotechnology