Past Event

This lecture series is hosted by the Institute for Science and Ethics

Geoengineering raises some profound ethical concerns, concerns that will be at the core of the forthcoming public debate over whether and how to intervene in the global climate. They include the moral corruption, moral hazard, slippery slope and playing God arguments.

Speaker: Clive Hamilton, Charles Sturt Professor of Public Ethics, Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Canberra

Biography: Clive Hamilton has held visiting positions at the University of Cambridge and Yale University and will present the lecture series as a visiting academic at Oxford University’s Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics. He is the author of a number of influential books, including Growth Fetish (2004) and Requiem for a Species: Why we resist the truth about climate change (2010). He is now writing a book on climate engineering to be published by Yale University Press in early 2013.