Article ID: CBB001552872

Confucian Environmental Ethics, Climate Engineering, and the “Playing God” (2015)

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Wong, Pak-Hang (Author)


Zygon
Volume: 50, no. 1
Issue: 1
Pages: 28-41

The burgeoning literature on the ethical issues raised by climate engineering has explored various normative questions associated with the research and deployment of climate engineering, and has examined a number of responses to them. While researchers have noted the ethical issues from climate engineering are global in nature, much of the discussion proceeds predominately with ethical framework in the Anglo-American and European traditions, which presume particular normative standpoints and understandings of human--nature relationship. The current discussion on the ethical issues, therefore, is far from being a genuine global dialogue. The aim of this article is to address the lack of intercultural exchange by exploring the ethics of climate engineering from a perspective of Confucian environmental ethics. Drawing from the existing discussion on Confucian environmental ethics and Confucian ethics of technology, I discuss what Confucian ethics can contribute to the ethical debate on climate engineering.

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Authors & Contributors
Heiner Roetz
Ashley Dawson
Mayer, F. Stephan
Yuriko Furuhata
Jude Galbraith
Anna Wienhues
Journals
Hyle
Ethics, Place and Environment
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Science as Culture
Publishers
OR Books
University of California Press
Oxford University Press
Duke University Press
Ashgate
Cambridge University Press
Concepts
Environmental ethics
Nature and its relationship to culture; human-nature relationships
Climate change
Environmentalism
Geoengineering; climate engineering
Ethics
People
Leopold, Aldo
Carson, Rachel Louise
Arendt, Hannah
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
Zhou dynasty (China, 1122-221 B.C.)
20th century
Places
United States
Japan
Europe
Taiwan
Institutions
Human Genome Project
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