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21Engineering the Climate: The Ethics of Solar Radiation Management (edited book)Lexington Books. 2012.Engineering the Climate: The Ethics of Solar Radiation Management is a wide-ranging and expert analysis of the ethics of the intentional management of solar radiation. This book will be a useful tool for policy-makers, a provocation for ethicists, and an eye-opening analysis for both the scientist and the general reader with interest in climate change
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10Guest Editors' Introduction to the 2022 ISEE Special IssueEnvironmental Ethics 45 (4): 315-318. 2023.
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63Restoration and History in a Changing World: A Case Study in Ethics for the AnthropoceneEthics and the Environment 18 (2): 115-134. 2013.The widely-heralded arrival of the “Anthropocene” era seems to call the existence and value of the natural world into question. Is the world prior to human alteration of it something worth preserving? Can and should we attempt to restore ecological conditions prior to human disturbance? Ecological restoration has traditionally used the past as a reference point in establishing standards and assessing the value of restored landscapes. In many landscapes, however, the traditional notion of histori…Read more
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8Guest Editors' Introduction to the 2021 ISEE Special IssueEnvironmental Ethics 44 (3): 193-194. 2022.
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39Intergenerational Ethics, Moral Ambivalence, and Climate ChangeThe Harvard Review of Philosophy 29 69-88. 2022.Global climate change raises critical issues of intergenerational ethics. One of these issues involves what Stephen Gardiner calls intergenerational buck-passing (IGBP)—a pattern through which each generation does little to address climate change and instead passes the problem along to the next, progressively amplifying the climate crisis over time. My goal in this paper to explore two key questions: (1) What is at the root of intergenerational buck-passing? and (2) What changes might help to …Read more
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37Intergenerational Ethics, Climate Change, and Moral AmbivalenceThe Harvard Review of Philosophy 29 69-88. 2022.Global climate change raises critical issues of intergenerational ethics. One of these issues involves what Stephen Gardiner calls intergenerational buck-passing (IGBP)—a pattern through which each generation does little to address climate change and instead passes the problem along to the next, progressively amplifying the climate crisis over time. My goal in this paper to explore two key questions: (1) What is at the root of intergenerational buck-passing? and (2) What changes might help to …Read more
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7The Governance of Solar Geoengineering: Managing Climate Change in the Anthropocene: by Jesse Reynolds, New York, NY, Cambridge University Press, 2019, viii + 267 pp., $89.99 (hardback), $34.99 (paperback), $28.00 (eBook), ISBN 9781107161955 (review)Ethics, Policy and Environment 25 (1): 76-79. 2022.Although scientists began to speculate about manipulating solar radiation to influence global climate more than a century ago, sustained discussion of climate engineering in r...
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44Environmental Ethics: The State of the QuestionSouthern Journal of Philosophy 59 (3): 270-308. 2021.The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 59, Issue 3, Page 270-308, September 2021.
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25Ethics, Adaptation, and the AnthropoceneEthics, Policy and Environment 24 (1): 60-74. 2021.Some proponents of the Anthropocene argue that it is time adopt a future-oriented outlook: natural baselines no longer matter, and humans should remake the planet for the better. This raises questions about whose vision should guide such remaking, and whether the past deserves any consideration in adapting for the future. I argue that the past remains relevant, because the natural, cultural, and social worlds people enter into – shaped by those who came before us – matter. On this view, there ar…Read more
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26Adapting Environmental Ethics to Rapid, Anthropogenic, and Global Ecological ChangeEnvironmental Ethics 42 (2): 99-101. 2020.
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59Geoengineering Justice: The Role of RecognitionScience, Technology, and Human Values 44 (3): 448-477. 2019.Global-scale solar geoengineering raises critical ethical questions, including questions of distributive, procedural, and intergenerational justice. Although geoengineering is sometimes framed as a response to injustice, insofar as it might benefit those most vulnerable to climate-related harms, geoengineering also has the potential to exacerbate climate injustice, especially if control of research, governance, and potential plans for deployment remains concentrated in the hands of a few. The sc…Read more
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9The Wrong of Rudeness: Learning Modern Civility from Ancient Chinese Philosophy (review)The Philosophers' Magazine 88 107-109. 2020.
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191. Hiding the World in the World: A Case for Cosmopolitanism Based in the ZhuangziIn Peter D. Hershock & Roger T. Ames (eds.), Philosophies of Place: An Intercultural Conversation, University of Hawaii Press. pp. 15-33. 2019.
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61Climate Change, Climate Engineering, and the ‘Global Poor’: What Does Justice Require?Ethics, Policy and Environment 21 (3): 270-288. 2018.ABSTRACTIn recent work, Joshua Horton and David Keith argue on distributive and consequentialist grounds that research into solar radiation management geoengineering is justified because the resulting knowledge has the potential to benefit everyone, particularly the ‘global poor.’ I argue that this view overlooks procedural and recognitional justice, and thus relegates to the background questions of how SRM research should be governed. In response to Horton and Keith, I argue for a multidimensio…Read more
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22Varieties of Non-Anthropocentricism: Duty, Beauty, Knowledge and RealityEnvironmental Values 27 (2): 113-118. 2018.
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15Restoring Layered Landscapes: History, Ecology, and Culture (edited book)Oup Usa. 2015.Restoring Layered Landscapes explores ecological restoration in complex landscapes, where ecosystems intertwine with important sociopolitical meanings.
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52Theories as tools: a pluralistic approach to ecological modelingStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 36 (3): 594-601. 2005.
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30Tradition and morality in the analects: A reply to HansenJournal of Chinese Philosophy 31 (4). 2004.
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11Theories as tools: a pluralistic approach to ecological modelingStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 36 (3): 594-601. 2005.
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27Stephen Skrimshire, ed., Future Ethics: Climate Change and Apocalyptic Imagination (review)Environmental Ethics 34 (3): 317-320. 2012.
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31Addressing the Harms of Climate Change: Making Sense of Loss and DamageEthics, Policy and Environment 20 (2): 125-128. 2017.In recent decades, changes in climate have caused impacts on natural and human systems on all continents and across the oceans. Impacts are due to observed climate change, irrespective of its cause...
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47Restoration and Authenticity RevisitedEnvironmental Ethics 35 (1): 79-93. 2013.One of the central worries raised in relation to ecological restoration concerns the problem of authenticity. Robert Elliot, for example, has argued that restoration “fakes nature.” On this view, restoration is like art forgery: it deceptively suggests that its product was produced in a certain way, when in fact, it was not. Restored landscapes present themselves as the product of “natural processes,” when in actuality, they have been significantly shaped by human intervention. For Elliott, ther…Read more
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88Doing, Allowing, and PrecautionEnvironmental Ethics 29 (4): 339-358. 2007.Many environmental policies seem to rest on an implicit distinction between doing and allowing. For example, it is generally thought worse to drive a speciesto extinction than to fail to save a species that is declining through no fault of our own, and worse to pollute the air with chemicals that trigger asthma attacks thanto fail to remove naturally occurring allergens such as pollen and mold. The distinction between doing and allowing seems to underlie certain versions of the precautionary pri…Read more
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19Gillian Barker. Beyond Biofatalism: Human Nature for An Evolving World (review)Environmental Philosophy 14 (1): 143-146. 2017.
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