Climate Ethics: Essential Readings

by Stephen Gardiner; Simon Caney; Dale Jamieson

• ISBN13: 9780199750580
• ISBN10: 0199750580
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780199889709
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2010-07-30
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Academic US
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Summary

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.

Author Biography

Simon Caney is Professor in Political Theory and Tutorial Fellow in Politics at Magdalen College, Oxford University.

Stephen Gardiner is Associate Professor of Philosophy at University of Washington.

Dale Jamieson is Director of Environmental Studies at New York University.

Henry Shue is Senior Research Fellow at Centre for International Studies, Oxford University.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Preface

A. Overview
1. Ethics and Global Climate Change, Stephen M. Gardiner

B. The Nature of the Problem
2. The Economics of Climate Change, Nicholas Stern
3. Ethics, Public Policy and Global Warming, Dale Jamieson
4. A Perfect Moral Storm: Climate Change, Intergenerational Ethics and the Problem of Moral Corruption, Stephen M. Gardiner

C: Global Justice and Future Generations
5. Global Environment and International Inequality, Henry Shue
6. Energy Policy and the Further Future: The Identity Problem, Derek Parfit
7. Cosmopolitan Justice, Responsibility and Global Climate Change, Simon Caney
8. Deadly Delays, Saving Opportunities: Creating a More Dangerous World?, Henry Shue
9. Climate Change, Human Rights and Moral Thresholds, Simon Caney

D: Policy Responses to Climate Change
10. One Atmosphere, Peter Singer
11. Subsistence Emissions and Luxury Emissions, Henry Shue
12. 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-Benedict
13. Selling Environmental Indulgences, Robert Goodin
14.'Adaptation: Who Pays Whom?, Paul Baer
15. Adaptation, Mitigation, and Justice, Dale Jamieson
16. Is "Arming the Future" with Geoengineering Really the Lesser Evil? Some Doubts About the Ethics of Intentionally Manipulating the Climate System, Stephen M. Gardiner

E. Individual Responsibility
17. When Utilitarians Should be Virtue Theorists, Dale Jamieson
18. It's Not My Fault: Global Warming and Individual Moral Obligations, Walter Sinnott Armstrong

References
Index