ABSTRACT
Indigenous peoples are referenced at various times in communication, debates, and academic and policy discussions on geoengineering. This chapter focuses on ethical and justice issues pertaining to some geoengineering research and implementation. Discourse on ethics and justice issues is critical for geoengineering for key reasons. Scholars including Christopher Preston, Holly Jean Buck, Wiley Carr, Andrea Gammon, Martin Bunzl, Toby Svoboda, Nancy Tuana, Klaus Keller, and Marlos Goes, among others, demonstrate some of these issues on environmental risk. Advocates of early research on some types of geoengineering often seek to move beyond hasty negative reactions to the idea of humans exercising landscape and earth systems scale environmental interventions. The chapter concludes by making the point that for geoengineering discourse to be more salient to some Indigenous peoples, scholars and scientists will have to take up what Indigenous peoples have already conveyed about climate change and colonialism and the solutions for climate justice.
