Climate Ethics Essential Readings

by Gardiner, Stephen; Caney, Simon; Jamieson, Dale; Shue, Henry; Pachauri, Rajendra Kumar

• ISBN13: 9780195399615
• ISBN10: 0195399617
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-07-30
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

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

S.C.: Professor in Political Theory and Tutorial Fellow in Politics, Magdalen College, Oxford.
S.G.: Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Washington.
D.J.: Director of Environmental Studies, NYU.
H.S.: Senior Research Fellow, Centre for International Studies, University of Oxford.

Table of Contents

Contributors	p. xv
Introductory Overview
Ethics and Global Climate Change	p. 3
The Nature of the Problem
The Economics of Climate Change	p. 39
Ethics, Public Policy, and Global Warming	p. 77
A Perfect Moral Storm: Climate Change, Intergenerational Ethics, and the Problem of Moral Corruption	p. 87
Global Justice and Future Generations
Global Environment and International Inequality	p. 101
Energy Policy and the Further Future: The Identity Problem	p. 112
Cosmopolitan Justice, Responsibility, and Global Climate Change	p. 122
Deadly Delays, Savings Opportunities: Creating a More Dangerous World?	p. 146
Climate Change, Human Rights, and Moral Thresholds	p. 163
Policy Responses to Climate Change
One Atmosphere	p. 181
Subsistence Emissions and Luxury Emissions	p. 200
Greenhouse Development Rights: A Framework for Climate Protection That Is ôMore Fairö Than Equal Per Capita Emissions Rights	p. 215
Selling Environmental Indulgences	p. 231
Adaptation to Climate Change: Who Pays Whom?	p. 247
Adaptation, Mitigation, and Justice	p. 263
Is ôArming the Futureö with Geoengineering Really the Lesser Evil?: Some Doubts about the Ethics of Intentionally Manipulating the Climate System	p. 284
Individual Responsibility
When Utilitarians Should Be Virtue Theorists	p. 315
It's Not My Fault: Global Warming and Individual Moral Obligations	p. 332
Index	p. 347
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