Geo Engineering And Its Effects On The Future Generations

Is global warming a moral dilemma? Is it the public policy problem from hell? In "The Environmental Issue from Hell," Bill McKibben uses many of such phrases en route to arguing for a new approach to global warming. By discussing hell and morals, the reader’s mind is already equating it with two heavily debated issues. Therefore, we begin to question their existence and how we should deal with the subjects. McKibben wisely chooses these disputes to represent his main concerns: the ways in which consumerism affects the global ecosystem, and the impact of humans on the environment. McKibben presents a solution on how to handle each of these environmental issues, utilizing both the people and the government.

In reading Garrett Hardin’s “The Tragedy of the Commons,” and through my participation in the Kivulini Simulation lab completed in class, my knowledge and understanding of the psychological factors that contribute to the logic behind the decisions made by humans that negatively impact the planet we inhabit have significantly expanded. Many of these decisions are made out of ignorance, while others are made despite knowledge of the harm that results from them. There are some ways that I can apply this knowledge to my life in order to contribute to the effort to preserve this planet in the hopes of allowing it to sustain future generations.

If we choose to keep cutting down trees and consuming natural resources then they won’t be able to replenish fast enough and there will be none left, posing many problems like having fresh water available to drink, wood to build products, and land to farm on. Obviously not many people are properly educated on environmental issues and how they make them worse but if we as a society choose not to educate those who aren’t then they will continue to use too many resources and not think about how their lifestyle is hurting our environment, which will make environmental problems even worse than they are today. Now as humans we’ve always wanted to get bigger and better, but if we keep expanding and building as much as we are then there won’t be as many resources available because we’ll have taken over spaces and land that was needed for those natural environments to live. Although this seems like a drastic point and something that we can’t really stop, if we always think that we need to keep building, someday we just won’t have any land to do it and also at the same time realize that we don’t have resources

This essentially states that the more people that are looking for a resource, the more definite it is that the resource being spoken of will deplete and lead the population to completely diminish the resource. One of the main components in the equation that is the Tragedy of the Commons comesfrom a deceiving perception in the abundance of the resource being exploited. This perception problem is usually what leads to the complete depletion of the resource being exploited as the people causing the exploitation are not aware of the harm that they are in all actuality causing. The lack of foresight displays that often individuals do not mean to exhaust a resource, but aresimply ignorant of the harm their actions are causing and its bigger impact. This is seen in “TheLorax”as the Once-ler does not realize how much he is harming the environment until the

The Tragedy of the Commons and the Lorax bring to the people’s attention that a growing population that is growing as if there are infinite amount of resources will do severe damage to the environment. The Tragedy of the Commons was an essay written in 1968 by an American ecologist by name of Garret Hardin. Hardin explains in his essay that the Tragedy of the Commons is an economic problem in which every individual who tries to reap the greatest benefit from a given resource. Then when demand for that particular resource surpasses the supply, every individual who consumes another unit of that resource will directly harm others who cannot reap the benefit as well. This particular economic problem is analogous to what happens in the movie The Lorax. The Lorax is about a greedy businessman known as Once-ler who shows up to a forest. Then cuts down all the trees to make his invention, while being chastised by a furry orange create known as the Lorax but he doesn’t listen. By the end of the movie there are no more trees and all the animals have lost their homes and Once-ler is poor again. The Lorax indirectly address the issue of the Tragedy of the Commons since it deals with the fundamental problem of unlimited needs and wants and limited resources.

ou can only have so much good before it is all gone. Resource depletion is the biggest environmental issues known to man. As humans we’re using what we have to live, but we use more than we give out. Through science, we’re finally starting to understand that people are using too much of the resources and altering the face of the earth. If we’re not careful, these problems can’t be fixed.

No matter what problem we have or how big that problem is, we are going to face questions that are both social and ethical in nature. Geoengineering is a proposal that the scientific community agrees might be necessary to stop the global warming crisis. However, many question if this is ethically acceptable. Humans have already manipulated the ecosystem, but intentionally and unintentionally, but are intentional acts on a large scale a good idea or not (Corner & Pidgeon, 2010). We have no idea what can occur when trying any of the methods, as no one has ever done anything like this in the past to reflect on or to give us suggestions for how we can be successful. Depending on where the manipulation occurs, it can cause different responses

Many different effects of the economic sector manifest themselves negatively in the world, and especially in nature. One of which is because of human tendency to want control or to believe that humans are superior to nature, the relationship between humans and nature becomes a dominant versus submissive binary, with humans pushing nature into submission. In Gerald Barrax’s poem titled “To Waste at Trees,” this point about human control is referenced when Barrax says “But it’s when you don’t care about the world / That you begin owning and destroying it” (Barrax lines 5-6). The implication behind this quote is the lack of discretion by humans with how their action influence the world around them. It is like the discrepancies between humans and nature are created unintentionally by people and their creations. Corporate America’s greed and disregard for the natural world continually enforces the binary between nature’s lack of autonomy and the control that humans exact on it. Also, “owning” the land, and “owning” a piece of nature is

Modernism represents an optimistic view of human impact on the environment that has been the dominant viewpoint for the last 200 years. The knowledge that mankind holds the ability to control the environment heavily stresses why climate change is not such a problem to worry about. One of the core beliefs of the modernistic perspective is that people have no need to fear future environmental disaster because the next technological advancement that will prevent it is right around the corner. Furthermore, those who share this view do not include themselves in their image of the ecosystem, believing they are detached from it. Lastly, a laissez-faire approach is taken to environmental problems, focusing on progression through technology, stressing that as long as progress is made in this area all problems will be fixed. For a modernist, climate change is nothing to worry about. This may be a real situation, but it will be solved with advancements in technology before one’s way of life is changed. What people should be worrying about is ensuring a laissez faire approach to the market with sponsorship to new technologies. As a result of reusable energy technology already existing, modernists believe that the problem of climate change has been solved and without disrupting free market system these technologies will be further implemented. As long as there are people given the opportunity to innovate, some will focus on and ultimately solve the concern of climate change. The issue of

Over the years, the science and political communities have increasingly discussed research on Geoengineering. The concept of Geoengineering was first proposed in a report given to the Johnson administration in 1965 and it received a lot of positive and negative feedback. Today the effects of climate change are becoming more apparent and climate researchers have visited this topic time and time again. However, many researchers for and against Geoengineering believe that researching and deploying such a project would encourage us to turn a blind eye to our moral duties of reducing GHG emissions. Although there are many uncertainties that come with Geoengineering, research on this topic should at least be considered because it will allow us to buy time, help respond to a climate emergency and, in financial terms, it seems very practical. More over, if considered it is important to have a set of rules governing Geoengineering research.

The decline of the environment due to natural and human exertion is known as the degradation of the environment. The natural weather occurrences such as heavy rain, flooding, storms, earthquakes, volcanoes etc. are not administered under human control. These meteorological phenomenon’s wreak devastation on the environment from time to time causing the land to become unsuitable to cultivate. On this subject matter, the human population does not contain the power to stop the wrath of Mother Nature. Rather, we are forced to sit back and watch. Nevertheless, humans engage in a crucial role towards the degradation of the environment in which we live in. Unavoidably, the degradation of the environment is a rising and utmost worldwide subject. I accept that the root cause to environmental degradation is the excessive use of resources on our land utilized by the processes under capitalism. As Jensen wrote in Endgame, “The global industrial economy is the engine for massive environmental degradation and massive human and (nonhuman) impoverishment.

Global Warming is the number one concern threatening the very existence of humans and everything within the environment today. The human race is to blame for the destruction of the natural world. The environmental issues that are threatening all human and non-human life today, started in the industrial revolution and the discovery of oil The need to improve the quality of life resulted in the construction of factories to mass produce products for consumers. These factories were powered by fossil fuels such as coal, oil and gas. The combustion of these fossil fuels emitted great quantities of pollutants that remain in the Earths atmosphere to this day and is the number one cause of global warming. However, in ethics one cannot evaluate just one thing. In ethics, as in nature, everything is connected to everything else (Partridge, 1998).

We as a society have reached one of the most crucial time periods in the history of our world. Due to the way we have used the resources on this earth we have created a situation in which our climate is drastically changing. The burning of fossil fuels such as coal and oil has caused gases like carbon dioxide to become trapped in the atmosphere causing a natural greenhouse effect. The greenhouse effect has caused the earth’s average temperature to rise and has resulted in arctic glaciers melting. These glaciers had gases trapped inside them that are now being released into the atmosphere further raising the earth's temperature. Due to the way we are polluting our air we have caused global warming. This global warming has caused stronger natural disasters such as hurricanes and wildfires putting our society in more danger than ever before.

Environmental problems are something which belongs to nature or known as “Mother Earth” [13]. Nature was created to help people survive from gathering foods until build a house. This phenomenon happens continuously without thinking how much damage that nature has because human’s fault. Nature gradually becomes worse and animal’s life in danger. People who are aware of the importance of nature react. Those people do several ways to save the environment. Although these efforts can return back the environment, these efforts only can be hold temporarily. This problem happens because those people who are aware of the environment only slightly; for remaining, there are people either do not know or do not care about the nature. People’s efforts

The Earth is a dynamic, constantly changing environment in which the hydrosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere all interact. When one changes slightly the change is then felt through out the spheres. Humans need to understand that the change they cause can have a potential for a disastrous affect on the environment. From injecting the atmosphere with greenhouse gas, or deforestation, all the unnatural things done to the environment will have an unnatural affect that will have to be dealt with. We as humans have a moral responsibility to reduce global warming gasses by changing our modes of transportation, to stop deforestation, and increase government funding into research to inhibit global warming for