The ethics of human engineering
Mar. 14th, 2012 10:07 pmVia a Guardian environment blog piece, an paper [pdf] examining the ethics of bioengineering humans to mitigate the effects of climate change. Although the authors deny it, the ideas seem to skirt the edge of a reductio ad absurdum argument against geo-hacking — but then, one person's absurdity is another's perfectly sensible.