The Ethics of Global Climate Change

by Arnold, Denis G.

• ISBN13: 9781107000698
• ISBN10: 1107000696
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-04-29
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

Argues for new ways of conceptualising our ethical obligations regarding global climate change and responds to first-generation literature.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	p. vii
List of contributors	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Introduction: climate change and ethics	p. 1
Energy, ethics, and the transformation of nature	p. 16
Is no one responsible for global environmental tragedy? Climate change as a challenge to our ethical concepts	p. 38
Greenhouse gas emission and the domination of posterity	p. 60
Climate change, energy rights, and equality	p. 77
Common atmospheric ownership and equal emissions entitlements	p. 104
A Lockean defense of grandfathering emission rights	p. 124
Parenting the planet	p. 145
Living ethically in a greenhouse	p. 170
Beyond business as usual: alternative wedges to avoid catastrophic climate change create sustainable societies	p. 192
Addressing competitiveness in US climate policy	p. 216
Reconciling justice and efficiency: integrating environmental justice into domestic cap-and-trade programs for controlling greenhouse gases	p. 232
Ethical dimensions of adapting to climate change-imposed risks	p. 255
Does nature matter? The place of the nonhuman in the ethics of climate change	p. 272
Human rights, climate change, and the trillionth ton	p. 292
Select bibliography	p. 315
Index	p. 320
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