ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the ethics of geoengineering – the suite of technologies designed to cool the planet as a response to dangerous heating. As we will see, proposals to research and deploy geoengineering technologies raise profound ethical questions. Our focus is on the many challenges of responding to geoengineering proposals in accordance with the principles of justice examined in earlier chapters. We thus look at this phenomenon through the lenses of distributive, intergenerational, procedural and corrective justice. We conclude with some brief reflections on what the very idea of geoengineering tells us about our ethically precarious position.
