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Cover; Climate Justice: Vulnerability and Protection; Copyright; Dedication; Preface; Table of Contents; Citations; Shorthand Names of Chapters; Introduction; OUR FOUR ALTERNATIVES; 1: The unavoidability of justice; TWO TRACKS; DOUBLE OR NOTHING; POOR NATIONS WITH THE LEAST LEVERAGE; POOR NATIONS WITH THE MOST LEVERAGE; TWO KINDS OF COMPOUND INJUSTICE; VITAL INTERESTS; A MODEST PRACTICAL IMPLICATION FOR THE NEGOTIATING AGENDA ON GLOBAL WARMING; 2: Subsistence emissions and luxury emissions; INTRODUCTION; A FRAMEWORK FOR INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE; Four kinds of questions |
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Allocating the costs of preventionAllocating the costs of coping; The background allocation of resources and fair bargaining; Allocating emissions: transition and goal; Two more kinds of questions; Two kinds of answers; COMPREHENSIVENESS VERSUS JUSTICE; 3: After you: may action by the rich be contingent upon action by the poor?; COOPERATIVE STRATEGY BETWEEN RICH AND POOR; Contributions by the poor; Contributions by the rich; FAIR TRANSITION; 'Aggressive population control'; The no-regrets budget; The mitigation budget; NATURALLY LIMITED SUPPLIES; PRE-AGREEMENT STANDARDS OF FAIRNESS |
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EXCESS AND ENCROACHMENTBY WHAT STANDARD UNFAIR?; THREE ALTERNATIVES; 4: Avoidable necessity: global warming, international fairness, and alternative energy; FOUR QUESTIONS OF FAIRNESS; IDEAL BEFORE NON-IDEAL?; GLOBAL WARMING: NOT YOUR USUAL PROBLEM; LESS ECONOMIC ACTIVITY OR DIFFERENT ENERGY SOURCES?; CURRENT CARBON EMISSIONS; EQUAL MINIMUM OF THE ESSENTIALS; MAKING A ZERO-SUM CAPACITY ESSENTIAL TO LIFE; SHRINKING OUR ECONOMY?; 5: Equity in an international agreement on climate change; EQUITY UNDER A GLOBAL EMISSIONS CEILING; Fundamental fairness; Ultimate scarcity; Fair shares |
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Double impositionAN ALTERNATIVE TO INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENT?; Conflicting conceptions; Dubious equity; CONCLUSION; 6: Environmental change and the varieties of justice; PREFERENCE AND FAIRNESS; FAIRNESS AND GLOBAL WARMING; COMING FULL CIRCLE; TRANSITION/EXTRICATION; 7: Eroding sovereignty: the advance of principle; LIMITING SOVEREIGNTY EXTERNALLY; LEAVING SOVEREIGNTY UNCHALLENGED; CONTESTING SOVEREIGNTY 'AT HOME'; TAKING DUE CARE; 8: Bequeathing hazards: security rights and property rights of future humans; LITTLE SURPRISES; SURPRISE ANNUITY; WHY DISCOUNTING IS NOT THE PRIMARY ISSUE |
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DISCOUNTING AND PROPERTY RIGHTS9: Global environment and international inequality; FUNDAMENTAL FAIRNESS AND ACCEPTABLE INEQUALITY; UNEQUAL BURDENS; Greater contribution to the problem; Greater ability to pay; GUARANTEED MINIMUM; OVERVIEW; 10: Climate; INFLICTING HARM; INCREASING INJUSTICE; 11: A legacy of danger: the Kyoto Protocol and future generations; INTRODUCTION; LEAST COST FIRST AND LATER GENERATIONS; INTERGENERATIONAL FAIRNESS AND INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY; THE DATE OF TECHNOLOGICAL TRANSITION; A LEGACY OF RISK OF HARM; THE KYOTO PROTOCOL; ALTERNATIVES |
| Summary |
The fruit of twenty years of moral reflection on the emerging greatest challenge to humanity of the 21st century, these far-sighted and influential essays by a pioneering practical philosopher on the tangled questions of justice between nations and justice across generations confronting all attempts at international cooperation in controlling climate change sharply crystallize the central choices and offer constructive directions forward. Arguing that persistent attempts by U.S._x000D_ negotiators to avoid the fundamental issues of justice at the heart of persistent international disagreement on the terms of a binding multilateral treaty are as morally misguided as they are diplomatically counter-productive, Henry Shue has built a case that efforts to price carbon (through_x000D_ cap-and-trade or carbon taxes) as a mechanism to drive down greenhouse gas emissions by the affluent must, for both ethical and political reasons, be complemented by international transfers that temporarily subsidize the development of non-carbon energy and its dissemination to those trapped in poverty. Our vital escape from climate change rooted in the dominance of the fossil fuel regime ought not, and in fact need not, come at the price of de-railing the escape of the world's poorest from_x000D_ poverty rooted in lack of affordable energy that does not undermine the climate. The momentum of changes in the planetary climate system and the political inertia of energy regimes mean that future generations, like the poorest of the present, are vulnerable to our decisions, and they have rights not_x000D_ to be left helpless by those of us with the power instead to leave them hope |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Climate justice.
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Environmental justice.
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Environmental policy -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Climatic changes -- Social aspects
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Climate justice
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Climatic changes -- Social aspects
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Environmental justice
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Environmental policy -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Monde.
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Etats-Unis d'Amérique.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191022791 |
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0191022799 |
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1306808405 |
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9781306808408 |
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9780198713708 |
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0198713703 |
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