{"id":77,"date":"2018-09-28T22:21:33","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T12:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rtulip.net\/blog\/?p=77"},"modified":"2018-10-06T21:41:38","modified_gmt":"2018-10-06T11:41:38","slug":"ethics-of-carbon-removal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rtulip.net\/blog\/2018\/09\/28\/ethics-of-carbon-removal\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethics of Carbon Removal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A climate policy comment published in the leading scientific journal Nature presents widely shared views about the ethics of Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) as a response to global warming (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/magazine-assets\/d41586-018-06695-5\/d41586-018-06695-5.pdf\">Lenzi et al, Weigh the ethics of plans to mop up carbon dioxide, Nature Comment, 20 September 2018<\/a>). <\/p>\n<p>My view is that their approach is misconceived, and fails to place CDR, and by extension climate restoration, in a balanced and realistic ethical framework.  This problem illustrates the strategic political challenges obstructing key programs supported by Healthy Climate Alliance.<\/p>\n<p>The lead authors of this paper are from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcc-berlin.net\/en.html\">Mercator Institute<\/a>, whose close involvement with <a href=\"https:\/\/newclimate.org\/portfolio\/pathways-and-entry-points-to-1-5-c-pep1p5\/\">IPCC analysis of possible 1.5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A climate policy comment published in the leading scientific journal Nature presents widely shared views about the ethics of Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) as a response to global warming (Lenzi et al, Weigh the ethics of plans to mop up carbon dioxide, Nature Comment, 20 September 2018). My view is that their approach is misconceived, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtulip.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtulip.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtulip.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtulip.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtulip.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rtulip.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78,"href":"https:\/\/rtulip.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rtulip.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtulip.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rtulip.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}