Don’t deploy negative emissions #technologies without ethical analysis
▻http://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06695-5
Why has this aspect of negative emissions been overlooked? Ethicists neglect the #science; modellers neglect the ethics. Geoengineering debates have been dominated by solar-radiation management — altering the reflectivity of the whole atmosphere seems more dystopian than growing forests or storing carbon. Early studies suggested that negative emissions technologies were largely benign6. Growing dependence on negative emissions increases the risks, but most ethicists have not noted this shift.