Boulder, Colorado
Discussion of “Green Moral Hazards” at:
“Social Science and Sustainability Technology Workshop”
Friday, 21 October 2022
9:10 a.m. – 4:10 p.m. Mountain Time
Developing and deploying new technologies will be key to decoupling the dramatic improvements of the past century in human material well-being from their environmental impacts. Developing and deploying sustainability technologies at scale is a complex social, political, and engineering challenge.
Please join us for an in-person workshop that will bring together North American thought leaders working on the social-science aspects of this challenge.
This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Creative Climate Communication and Behavior Change (C3BC) and the CIRES Center for Social and Environmental Futures (C-SEF).
Session 1: Food technology (9:10 am – 10:10 am)
Peter Newton (CU Boulder), Yoel Inbar (U. Toronto), Leaf Van Boven (CU Boulder)
Session 2: Climate risk and geoengineering (10:40 am – 12:00 pm)
Jonathon Moyer (U. Denver), Kaitlin Raimi (U. Michigan), Gernot Wagner (Columbia), Benjamin Converse (U. Virginia)
Lunch Break (12:00 pm – 1:00 pm)
Lunch is on your own. Please join us again at 1 pm.
Session 3: Technology and motivation (1:00 pm – 2:20 pm)
Kyri Baker (CU Boulder), Ian Lange (Colorado School of Mines), Trisha Shrum (U. Vermont), Gabrielle Wong-Parodi (Stanford)
Session 4: Energy transition politics and policy (2:50 pm – 4:10 pm)
Lisa Dilling (CU Boulder), Maxwell Boykoff (CU Boulder), Ezra Markowitz (U. Mass Amherst), Matthew Burgess (CU Boulder)
Paper: “Green Moral Hazards” by Gernot Wagner and Daniel Zizzamia, Ethics, Policy & Environment (15 July 2021).
Related: Geoengineering: the Gamble (Polity, 2021); “Fear of Geoengineering Is Really Anxiety About Cutting Carbon,” Bloomberg Green Risky Climate column (25 June 2021); “Green Moral Hazards,” C2G blog (9 January 2020, with Daniel Zizzamia); “The Hazard of Environmental Morality,” Foreign Policy (24 December 2018, with Christine Merk).