The ethics of global climate change / edited by Denis G. Arnold.
Contributor(s): Arnold, Denis Gordon.
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TextPublisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011Description: xi, 340 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781107666016.Subject(s): Environmental ethics
| Environmental responsibility | Climatic changes -- Moral and ethical aspects | Global warming -- Moral and ethical aspectsDDC classification: 179.1 LOC classification: GE42 | .E844 2011Online resources: Table of contents only | Publisher description | Contributor biographical information Summary: "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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Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-319) and index.
"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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