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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815556303321

Autore

Brown Donald A. <1944-, >

Titolo

Climate change ethics : navigating the perfect moral storm / / Donald A. Brown

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-136-24364-X

0-203-10323-8

1-299-27912-0

1-136-24365-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Disciplina

179/.1

Soggetti

Climatic changes - Moral and ethical aspects

Global warming - Moral and ethical aspects

Environmental ethics

Climatic changes - Government policy

Global warming - Government policy

Environmental policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--T.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Part 1. Introduction -- Introduction: Navigating the Perfect Moral Storm in Light of a Thirty-Five Year Debate -- Thirty-Five Year Climate Change Policy Debate -- Part 2. Priority Ethical Issues -- Ethical Problems with Cost Arguments -- Ethics and Scientific Uncertainty Arguments -- Atmospheric Targets -- Allocating National Emissions Targets -- Climate Change Damages and Adaptation Costs -- Obligations of Sub-national Governments, Organizations, Businesses, and Individuals -- Independent Responsibility to Act -- Part 3. The Crucial Role of Ethics in Climate Change Policy Making -- Why Has Ethics Failed to Achieve Traction? -- Conclusion: Navigating the Perfect Moral Storm.

Sommario/riassunto

Climate change is now the biggest challenge faced by humanity worldwide and ethics is the crucial missing component in the debate about what to do about this enormous threat. This book examines why



thirty-five years of discussion of human-induced warming has failed to acknowledge fundamental ethical concerns, and subjects climate change's most important policy questions to ethical analysis.This book examines why ethical principles have failed to gain traction in policy formation and recommends specific strategies to ensure that climate change policies are consistent with ethical prin