The Ethics of Climate Change

Name: The Ethics of Climate Change
Author: James Garvey
ISBN: 1317141423

by James Garvey

"Global climate change is the most daunting ethical and political challenge confronting humanity in the twenty-first century. The intergenerational and transnational ethical issues raised by climate change have been the focus of a significant body of scholarship. In this new collection of essays, leading scholars engage and respond to first-generation scholarship and argue for new ways of thinking about our ethical obligations to present and future generations. Topics addressed in these essays include moral accountability for energy consumption and emissions, egalitarian and libertarian perspectives on mitigation, justice in relation to cap and trade schemes, the ethics of adaptation, and the ethical dimensions of the impact of climate change on nature"--

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Mary Robinson

"This was published in 2008 and gives us a philosopher’s viewpoint on climate change and the attendant responsibilities. The author argues that while we must be informed by the economic, social, scientific and political realities of climate change it is largely a moral problem: so that individual, state and multinational responses to climate change are a function of values. The book is a very good and, despite the challenging content, a very easy read. It is comprehensive in that Garvey initially outlines the science and likely impacts behind climate change and explains why the impacts will disproportionately affect the poor – those least responsible for the problem. It is ultimately a book about our choices and our responsibility, and as Garvey has said elsewhere, ‘We broke it. So we own it.’"

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