1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910792465703321

Autore

Posner Eric A

Titolo

Climate change justice [[electronic resource] /] / Eric A. Posner, David Weisbach

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, NJ, : Princeton University Press, c2010

ISBN

1-282-53150-6

9786612531507

1-4008-3440-6

Edizione

[Course Book]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (166 pages) : illustrations

Altri autori (Persone)

WeisbachDavid A

Disciplina

363.738/74526

Soggetti

Climatic changes - Political aspects

Climatic changes - Government policy

Climatic changes - Law and legislation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Ethically Relevant Facts and Predictions -- Chapter 2: Policy Instruments -- Chapter 3: Symbols, Not Substance -- Chapter 4: Climate Change and Distributive Justice: Climate Change Blinders -- Chapter 5: Punishing the Wrongdoers: A Climate Guilt Clause? -- Chapter 6: Equality and the Case against Per Capita Permits -- Chapter 7: Future Generations -- Chapter 8: Global Welfare, Global Justice, and Climate Change -- A Recapitulation -- Afterword: The Copenhagen Accord -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Climate change and justice are so closely associated that many people take it for granted that a global climate treaty should--indeed, must--directly address both issues together. But, in fact, this would be a serious mistake, one that, by dooming effective international limits on greenhouse gases, would actually make the world's poor and developing nations far worse off. This is the provocative and original argument of Climate Change Justice. Eric Posner and David Weisbach strongly favor both a climate change agreement and efforts to improve economic justice. But they make a powerful case that the best--and possibly only--way to get an effective climate treaty is to exclude



measures designed to redistribute wealth or address historical wrongs against underdeveloped countries. In clear language, Climate Change Justice proposes four basic principles for designing the only kind of climate treaty that will work--a forward-looking agreement that requires every country to make greenhouse--gas reductions but still makes every country better off in its own view. This kind of treaty has the best chance of actually controlling climate change and improving the welfare of people around the world.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910962414703321

Autore

Alexander Thomas G. <1935->

Titolo

Brigham young, the quorum of the Twelve, and the Latter-Day Saint investigation of the Mountain Meadows massacre / / Thomas G. Alexander

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Logan, Utah, : Utah State University Press, c2006

ISBN

9780874216974

0874216974

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (49 p.)

Collana

Arrington lecture series

Disciplina

979.2/02

979.202

Soggetti

Latter Day Saint churches - Presidents

Utah History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"September 21, 2006."

Sponsored by Special Collections & Archives, Merrill Library, Utah State University, Logan, Utah.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Copyright -- Introduction -- Brigham Young, The Quorum of the Twelve, and the Latter-day Saint Investigation of the Mountain Meadows Massacre -- Notes -- Back Cover.

Sommario/riassunto

On September 11, 1857, a wagon train of emigrants passing through the Utah Territory on their way to California were massacred at Mountain Meadows. Although today's historians agree that the principal perpetrators were members of the Mormon militia in southern Utah,



how much the central Mormon leadership, especially Brigham Young at the top, knew about the massacre, when and how they learned about it, and the extent of a cover up afterward are still matters of controversy and debate.In this 12th volume of the Arrington Lecture Series, Thomas Alexander (Lemuel  Redd Professor of