Marschak Colloquium series: Generationally Parochial Geoengineering?
February 4 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Presented by the UCLA Library and the Jacob Marschak Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Mathematics in the Behavioral Sciences
Speaker: Stephen M. Gardiner, professor of philosophy and Ben Rabinowitz Professor of the Human Dimensions of the Environment at the University of Washington, Seattle
Gardiner maintains that the threat of intergenerational tyranny ought to be a core concern in environmental governance and policy. In this talk, he shares how the idea was motivated through an exploration of a key contemporary example, the threat of generationally-parochial geoengineering (‘GPG’). To do so, Gardiner and colleagues developed the concept of GPG, suggested some salient scenarios and identified early warning signs in the current scientific and policy literature.
Gardiner concludes with the offering that GPG ought to be a central issue in both the ethics of geoengineering and any serious scientific, political or policy discussion of such technologies.
This talk is offered both in person and online. Light refreshments will be served. Registration is required.