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Title The ethics of global climate change / edited by Denis G. Arnold
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 340 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction: climate change and ethics / Denis G. Arnold -- 1. dtEnergy, ethics and the transformation of nature / Dale Jamieson -- 2. Is no one responsible for global environmental tragedy?: climate change as challenge in our ethical concepts / Stephen Gardiner -- 3. Greenhouse gas emission and the domination of posterity / John Nolt -- 4. Climate change, energy rights and equality / Simon Caney -- 5. Common atmospheric ownership and equal emissions entitlements / Darrel Moellendorf -- 6. A Lockean defense of grandfathering emission rights / Luc Bovens -- 7. Parenting the planet / Sarah Krakoff -- 8. Living ethically in a greenhouse / Robert H. Socolow and Mary R. English -- 9. Beyond business as usual: alternative wedges to avoid catastrophic climate change and create sustainable societies / Philip Cafaro -- 10. Addressing competitiveness in US climate policy / Richard D. Morgenstern -- 11. Reconciling justice and efficiency: integrating environmental justice into domestic cap-and-trade programs for controlling greenhouse gases / Alice Kaswan -- 12. Ethical dimensions of adapting to climate change imposed risks / W. Neil Adger and Sophie Nicholson-Cole -- 13. Does nature matter?: the place of the nonhuman in the ethics of climate change / Clare Palmer -- 14. Human rights, climate change, and the trillionth ton / Henry Shue
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"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Environmental ethics.
Environmental responsibility.
Climatic changes -- Moral and ethical aspects
Global warming -- Moral and ethical aspects
PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
Changement climatique.
Ethique.
Contrôle d'émission.
Consommation d'énergie.
Protection de l'environnement.
Responsabilité.
Climatic changes -- Moral and ethical aspects
Environmental ethics
Environmental responsibility
Global warming -- Moral and ethical aspects
Klimaänderung
Ethik
Umweltethik
Klimaatveranderingen.
Milieuethiek.
Form Electronic book
Author Arnold, Denis Gordon.
LC no. 2010031762
ISBN 9781139082686
113908268X
9781139078115
1139078119
9781139080415
1139080415
9780511732294
0511732295