HMS Bioethics seminar
Harvard Medical School
Moral hazard
Fear of Nuclear Power Should Not Stop Carbon Cuts
The severity of the climate crisis necessitates a new look at nuclear power
Fear of Geoengineering Is Really Anxiety About Cutting Carbon
Research into unproven technofixes isn’t a replacement for eliminating emissions, even if the debate over geoengineering is stuck on that concern.
Availability of risky geoengineering can make an ambitious climate mitigation agreement more likely
by Adrien Fabre and Gernot Wagner
Green Moral Hazards
The core question is whether any kind of technofix that sustains fossil-fueled capitalism and the status quo can be considered “green.”
Moral Hazard and Solar Geoengineering
Moral hazard [ˈmôrəl ˈhazərd, noun]—The lack of incentive to guard against risk when one is protected from its consequences.
The Hazard of Environmental Morality
Efforts to combat climate change should be pragmatic above all else.
Fast, cheap, and imperfect? US public opinion about solar geoengineering
by Aseem Mahajan, Dustin Tingley, and Gernot Wagner
Caltech Geoengineering Symposium
Pasadena, CA
What do people think when they think about solar geoengineering?
by Elizabeth T. Burns, Jane A. Flegal, David W. Keith, Aseem Mahajan, Dustin Tingley, and Gernot Wagner
Toward a More Reflective Planet
It would be barking mad to take up smoking simply because an experimental cancer treatment showed some promise on a lab rat
Errors of commission versus errors of omission
The moral dilemma on climate