Theological and Ethical Perspectives on Climate Engineering

Calming the Storm

Forrest Clingerman, Kevin J. O'Brien (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

242 Seiten

2016
Lexington Books (Verlag)
9781498523585 (ISBN)

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The climate is changing as an unintended consequence of human industrialization and consumerism. Recently some scientists and engineers have suggested climate engineering—technological solutions that would intentionally change the climate to make it more hospitable. This approach focuses on large-scale technologies to alleviate the worst effects of anthropogenic climate change. This book considers the moral, philosophical, and religious questions raised by such proposals, bringing Christian theology and ethics into the conversation about climate engineering for the first time. The contributors have different views on whether climate engineering is morally acceptable and on what kinds of climate engineering are most promising and most dangerous, but all agree that religion has a vital role to play in the analysis and decisions called for on this vital issue.
Calming the Storm presents diverse perspectives on some of the most vital questions raised by climate engineering: Who has the right to make decisions about such global technological efforts? What have we learned from the decisions that caused the climate to change that might shed light on efforts to reverse that change? What frameworks and metaphors are helpful in thinking about climate engineering, and which are counterproductive? What religious beliefs, practices, and rituals can help people to imagine and evaluate the prospect of engineering the climate?

Forrest Clingerman is associate professor of philosophy and religion at Ohio Northern University. Kevin J. O’Brien is associate professor of religion at Pacific Lutheran University.

Introduction
Forrest Clingerman & Kevin J. O’Brien
Acknowledgments
Part I: Climate Engineering and Religion
Chapter 1
Playing God: Why Religion Belongs in the Climate Engineering Debate
Forrest Clingerman & Kevin J. O’Brien
Chapter 2
From the Garden of Eden to Eden’s Gardener? Experiences from Dialogues with Religious Groups on Climate Engineering and Possible Implications for Transdisciplinarity
Thomas Bruhn, Stefan Schäfer, & Mark G. Lawrence
Part II: Philosophical and Theological Responses to Climate Engineering
Chapter 3
The Temptations of Climate Engineering
Dane Scott
Chapter 4
Real Presence: Process Theological Perspectives on Geoengineering the Body of God
Marit Trelstad
Chapter 5
Time’s Arrow and Narratives of Climate Engineering
Forrest Clingerman
Chapter 6
Rewriting Mortality: A Theological Critique of Geoengineering and De-Extinction
Stefan Skrimshire
Part III: Religious Resources for Moral Discernment
Chapter 7
Healing the Climate? Christian Ethics and Medical Models for Climate Engineering
Laura M. Hartman
Chapter 8
Stewards of Irony: Planetary Stewardship, Climate Engineering, and Religious Ethics
Willis Jenkins
Chapter 9
Ritual Responses to Climate Engineering
Sarah E. Fredericks
Chapter 10
“First Be Reconciled”: The Priority of Repentance in the Climate Engineering Debate
Kevin J. O’Brien
Appendix
Religion and Climate Engineering: Points of Consensus from Claremont
Thomas Bruhn, Forrest Clingerman, Sarah Fredericks, Laura Hartman, Kevin J. O’Brien, Dane Scott, and Marit Trelstad
Contributors

Erscheinungsdatum	22.09.2016
Reihe/Serie	Religious Ethics and Environmental Challenges
Co-Autor	Thomas Bruhn, Forrest Clingerman, Sarah E. Fredericks
Zusatzinfo	2 BW Illustrations, 2 BW Photos, 1 Table
Sprache	englisch
Maße	162 x 234 mm
Gewicht	513 g
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Moraltheologie / Sozialethik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie
	Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
ISBN-13	9781498523585 / 9781498523585
Zustand	Neuware