Introduction : the global environmental tragedy -- A perfect moral storm -- The consumption tragedy -- Somebody else's problem? -- A shadowy and evolving tragedy -- The tyranny of the contemporary -- An intergenerational arms race? -- A global test for contemporary political institutions and theories -- Cost-benefit paralysis -- Jane Austen vs. climate economics -- Geoengineering in an atmosphere of evil -- Some initial ethics of the transition -- The immediate future -- Appendix 1 : the population tragedy -- Appendix 2 : epistemic corruption and scientific uncertainty in Michael Crichton's State of fear
Summary
Climate change is arguably the great problem confronting humanity, but we have done little to head off this looming catastrophe. In this work, Gardiner illuminates our dangerous inaction by placing the environmental crisis in an entirely new light, considering it as an ethical failure
