Human Enhancement and the Proper Response to Climate Change. Issue 1 (2nd January 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Fanciullo, James
• Is Part Of: Ethics, policy & environment. Volume 23:Issue 1(2020)
• Page Start: 85
• Page End: 96
• Publication Date: 2020-01-02
• Subjects: Human enhancement -- climate change -- interest-altering -- enhancements -- collective action; Environmental ethics -- Periodicals; Environmental policy -- Periodicals; 179.1
• DOI: 10.1080/21550085.2020.1746006
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2155-0085

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Several philosophers have argued that human enhancements should be considered a potential solution to climate change. In this paper, I consider one such argument offered by S. Matthew Liao, Anders Sandberg, and Rebecca Roache. I argue that, while their argument is plausible, we have an even stronger reason to consider enhancements a potential solution. In particular, enhancements could align our interests with the promotion of a proper response to climate change: if enhancements were in our interest to adopt and also reduced the pernicious effects of climate change, then it would, indirectly, become in our interest to reduce those effects.