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Theological and Ethical Perspectives on Climate Engineering
Calming the Storm
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2016
Summary
The climate is changing as an unintended consequence of human industrialization and consumerism. Recently some scientists and engineers have suggested climate engineering—technological solutions that would intentionally change the climate to make it more hospitable. This approach focuses on large-scale technologies to alleviate the worst effects of anthropogenic climate change. This book considers the moral, philosophical, and religious questions raised by such proposals, bringing Christian theology and ethics into the conversation about climate engineering for the first time. The contributors have different views on whether climate engineering is morally acceptable and on what kinds of climate engineering are most promising and most dangerous, but all agree that religion has a vital role to play in the analysis and decisions called for on this vital issue.
Calming the Storm presents diverse perspectives on some of the most vital questions raised by climate engineering: Who has the right to make decisions about such global technological efforts? What have we learned from the decisions that caused the climate to change that might shed light on efforts to reverse that change? What frameworks and metaphors are helpful in thinking about climate engineering, and which are counterproductive? What religious beliefs, practices, and rituals can help people to imagine and evaluate the prospect of engineering the climate?
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Copyright year
2016
ISBN-Print
978-1-4985-2358-5
ISBN-Online
978-1-4985-2359-2
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
216
Product type
Edited Book
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access
1 Playing God: Why Religion Belongs in the Climate Engineering Debate No access
2 From the Garden of Eden to Eden’s Gardener?—Experiences from Dialogues with Religious Groups on Climate Engineering and Possible Implications for Transdisciplinarity No access
3 The Temptations ofClimate Engineering No access
4 Real Presence:Process Theological Perspectives on Geoengineering the Body of God No access
5 Time’s Arrow and Narratives of Climate Engineering No access
6 Rewriting Mortality: A Theological Critique of Geoengineering and De-Extinction No access
7 Healing the Climate?Christian Ethics andMedical Models for Climate Engineering No access
8 Stewards of Irony:Planetary Stewardship, ClimateEngineering, and Religious Ethics No access
9 Ritual Responses to Climate Engineering No access
10 “First Be Reconciled”:The Priority of Repentance inthe Climate Engineering Debate No access
Appendix: Religion and Climate Engineering: Points of Consensus from Claremont No access Pages 205 - 208
