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Ethical issues raised by waiting for geological carbon storage

Brown, Donald A.
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Brown, Donald A.
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climate change
climate ethics
greenhouse effect
technology
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Political ethics
Economic ethics
Environmental ethics
Technology ethics
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Climate Ethics
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"This post examines ethical issues that arise when a government does not take action to reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from coal fired powered plants because it plans to eventually use carbon capture and geologic storage technology (geologic carbon storage) to sequester carbon dioxide produced in coal combustion. As more fully set out in a prior post, geologic carbon sequestration is a hopeful but unproven technology for reducing climate change's threat which raises a number of ethical issues that should be considered in regard to its deployment. This post looks in more detail at one of these ethical issues, that is, ethical issues that arise by waiting for this hopeful but unproven technology to be perfected while continuing to emit GHG from existing coal fired power plants. (p.1).
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2008-08
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