Description
This collection gathers a set of seminal papers from the emerging area of ethics and climate change. Topics covered include human rights, international justice, intergenerational ethics, individual responsibility, climate economics, and the ethics of geoengineering. Climate Ethics is intended to serve as a source book for general reference, and for university courses that include a focus on the human dimensions of climate change. It should be of broad interest to all those concerned with global justice, environmental science and policy, and the future of humanity.
Table of Contents
Notes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsPrefaceA. Overview 1. Ethics and Global Climate Change, Stephen M. GardinerB. The Nature of the Problem2. The Economics of Climate Change, Nicholas Stern3. Ethics, Public Policy and Global Warming, Dale Jamieson4. A Perfect Moral Storm: Climate Change, Intergenerational Ethics and the Problem of Moral Corruption, Stephen M. GardinerC: Global Justice and Future Generations5. Global Environment and International Inequality, Henry Shue6. Energy Policy and the Further Future: The Identity Problem, Derek Parfit7. Cosmopolitan Justice, Responsibility and Global Climate Change, Simon Caney8. Deadly Delays, Saving Opportunities: Creating a More Dangerous World?, Henry Shue9. Climate Change, Human Rights and Moral Thresholds, Simon CaneyD: Policy Responses to Climate Change10. One Atmosphere, Peter Singer11. Subsistence Emissions and Luxury Emissions, Henry Shue12. Greenhouse Development Rights: A Framework for Climate Protection that is "More Fair" than Equal per Capita Emissions Rights, Paul Baer, with Tom Athanasiou, Sivan Kartha and Eric Kemp-Benedict13. Selling Environmental Indulgences, Robert Goodin14.'Adaptation: Who Pays Whom?, Paul Baer15. Adaptation, Mitigation, and Justice, Dale Jamieson16. Is "Arming the Future" with Geoengineering Really the Lesser Evil? Some Doubts About the Ethics of Intentionally Manipulating the Climate System, Stephen M. GardinerE. Individual Responsibility 17. When Utilitarians Should be Virtue Theorists, Dale Jamieson18. It's Not My Fault: Global Warming and Individual Moral Obligations, Walter Sinnott ArmstrongReferencesIndex
