#15

Today I have had what ended up as half a book writing day, with a little work done in relation to the page proofs of my forthcoming book with Bloomsbury Academic, Carbon Capture and the Future of Environmentalism, and some research done concerning industry news and other news related to climate change and particularly carbon capture and storage (CCS). This brings the number of writing days this Autumn up to 15 including 10,5 book writing days.

#11

Today I have had a book writing day, with work done in relation to the page proofs of my forthcoming book with Bloomsbury Academic, Carbon Capture and the Future of Environmentalism. This brings the number of writing days this Autumn up to 11 including 6,5 book writing days.

#7,5

Today I have had half a book writing day, with work done related to finishing organising my response to the copy-editing of the manuscript of my forthcoming book with Bloomsbury Academic, Carbon Capture and the Future of Environmentalism, and submitting it. This brings the number of writing days this Autumn up to 7,5 including 5 book writing days.

Carbon Capture and the Future of Environmentalism now featured online and available for pre-order

Information from Bloomsbury Academic about my forthcoming book Carbon Capture and the Future of Environmentalism has now appeared online. Info includes book summary, Table of Contents, and a blurb by Peder Anker.

#2

Today I have had half a book writing day, with some planning made for the production process for my forthcoming book with Bloomsbury Academic Carbon Capture and the Future of Environmentalism. I also received copy-edited files and information about the production process from the book´s project manager at Integra Software Services, a company based in India which Bloomsbury Academic uses for producing my book. 

Moreover, I had half an article writing day, with some 400 words added to my book review of Interpreting, Communication and Animal Welfare for Biosemiotics. 

This brings the number of writing days this Autumn up to 2 including 1,5 article writing days and 0,5 book writing days.

Ethics of CCS paper rejected for NEEN26 event

I have been notified that my paper submitted to NEEN26, the NEEN & ISEE Conference on Environmental Ethics which is to be held at Umeå University, Sweden, October 14-16th, titled "The ethical case against Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)", has been rejected by the organisers. 

This is the second or third time I have had a paper on this theme rejected. For some reason, the ethics of CCS seems to be anathema.

See also:

CCS paper submitted to NEEN26 conference

Book "Carbon Capture and the Future of Environmentalism" planned published in February 2027

I have been informed by Bloomsbury Academic that the planned publication date for my forthcoming book Carbon Capture and the Future of Environmentalism is February 18th 2027. This is slightly more than 18 months after I submitted the full book manuscript in early August 2025 (I made revisions in May and June this year).

#55,5

Today I have had what ended up as another full book writing day devoted to finishing and submitting the revision of the manuscript for my scientific monograph Carbon Capture and the Future of Environmentalism, which is forthcoming with Bloomsbury Academic. In the process I added some 1.200 words to the manuscript. This brings the number of writing days so far this Spring up to 55,5 writing days including 26 book writing days.

#54,5

Today I have had a book writing day devoted to ALMOST finishing the revision of the manuscript for my scientific monograph Carbon Capture and the Future of Environmentalism, which is forthcoming with Bloomsbury Academic. In the process I added some 1.100 words to the manuscript. This brings the number of writing days so far this Spring up to 54,5 including 25 book writing days.

#53,5

Today I have had half a book writing day devoted to my scientific monograph Carbon Capture and the Future of Environmentalism, which is forthcoming with Bloomsbury Academic. In the process I added some 400 words to the manuscript. This brings the number of writing days so far this Spring up to 53,5 including 24 book writing days.

#52,5

Today I have had half a book writing day devoted to my scientific monograph Carbon Capture and the Future of Environmentalism, which is forthcoming with Bloomsbury Academic. In the process I added some 150 words to the manuscript. This brings the number of writing days so far this Spring up to 52,5 including 23,5 book writing days.

#52

Today I have had half a book writing day devoted to my scientific monograph Carbon Capture and the Future of Environmentalism, which is forthcoming with Bloomsbury Academic. In the process I added some 300 words to the manuscript. This brings the number of writing days so far this Spring up to 52, including 23 book writing days.

#51,5

Today I have had a book writing day devoted to my scientific monograph Carbon Capture and the Future of Environmentalism, which is forthcoming with Bloomsbury Academic. In the process I added some 300 words to the manuscript. This brings the number of writing days so far this Spring up to 51,5, including 22,5 book writing days.

#49,5

Today I have had a book writing day devoted to my scientific monograph Carbon Capture and the Future of Environmentalism, which is forthcoming with Bloomsbury Academic. In the process I added some 200 words to the manuscript. This brings the number of writing days so far this Spring up to 49,5, including 20,5 book writing days.

#48,5

Today I have had what, after some rescheduling of writing plans, ended up as half a book writing day, devoted to my scientific monograph Carbon Capture and the Future of Environmentalism, which is forthcoming with Bloomsbury Academic. In the process I added some 200 words to the manuscript. This brings the number of writing days so far this Spring up to 48,5, including 19,5 book writing days.

#48

Today I have had a book writing day devoted to my scientific monograph Carbon Capture and the Future of Environmentalism, which is forthcoming with Bloomsbury Academic, with about 500 words added to the manuscript in the process. This brings the number of writing days so far this Spring up to 48, including 19 book writing days.

#47

Today I have had half a book writing day devoted to my scientific monograph Carbon Capture and the Future of Environmentalism, which is forthcoming with Bloomsbury Academic. This brings the number of writing days so far this Spring up to 47, including 18 book writing days.

#46,5

Today, on my way back to Stavanger from Oslo, I have had an article writing day devoted to finishing my article "Prolegomena to lifeworld-oriented studies of contested climate pasts and futures", which I have now submitted to a special issue of Journal of Cognitive Historiography about "Cognition and Evolution in Historical and Social Research". In the process I added 2.058 words to the manuscript - making this the most productive writing day so far this year in terms of words written. This brings the number of writing days so far this Spring up to 46,5, including 29 article writing days.

CCS paper submitted to NEEN26 conference

I have just composed and submitted the abstract below to NEEN26, the NEEN & ISEE Conference on Environmental Ethics which is to be held at Umeå University, Sweden, October 14-16th. The conference is organised by Nordic Environmental Ethics Network (NEEN) in collaboration with International Society for Environmental Ethics (European section) .

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The ethical case against Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)  

CCS has become increasingly central as a proposed mitigation measure. The Net Zero goal presupposes Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR), which may involve the use of so-called negative emission technologies (NETs), which in turn in some cases involve Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS). The Net Zero goal has arguably been misappropriated by fossil fuel interests to promote an agenda that seeks to avoid rapidly phasing out fossil fuels. It is commonly claimed that CCS is a necessity. But CCS as practiced to date has actually been found to be net CO2 additive. While emission reductions from CCS are often uncertain, research confirms that CCS mitigation measures have resulted in mitigation deterrence and climate delay. Regrettably, CCS has not triggered much debate in climate ethics, where anthropocentric perspectives – somewhat surprisingly – predominate. In ethical discussions about CCS, interspecies justice is particularly relevant in two ways: Firstly, in so far as CCS policies contribute to allowing continued greenhouse gas emissions and an overshoot in emissions, this will contribute to exacerbate the impact of climate change, including for non-humans. Secondly, in so far as non-humans are harmfully affected by the transportation of CO2 and long-term dedicated geological storage of CO2 in subsurface environments, this is a direct consequence of CCS policies. Lastly, while future generations is a common concern in environmental ethics, this perspective have not received much attention in the context of CCS. With its required time horizon of at least 10,000 years for underground CO2 storages, CCS is a perfect example of intergenerational externalization of costs in a climate change context. This arguably makes CCS unacceptable from the perspective of intergenerational justice and fairness. In this context, the lack of consensus among researchers on what CO2 leakage rates are acceptable is especially concerning.

#42

Today I have had half a book writing day, with some 100 words net added to my scientific monograph Carbon Capture and the Future of Environmentalism, which is forthcoming with Bloomsbury Academic. This brings the number of writing days so far this Spring up to 42, including 17,5 book writing days.