Ethical Choices and Global Greenhouse Warming [[electronic resource] /] / Lydia Dotto

• Autore: Dotto Lydia
• Pubblicazione: Waterloo, Ont., : Published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press for the Calgary Institute for the Humanities, c1993
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (91 p.)
• Disciplina: 179; 179.1; 179/.1
• Soggetto topico: Greenhouse effect, Atmospheric - Moral and ethical aspects; Environmental responsibility; Environmental ethics; Climatic changes - Moral and ethical aspects; Global warming - Moral and ethical aspects
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Based on the study The greenhouse effect: ethics & climate change, sponsored by the Calgary Institute for the Humanities.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 71) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Table of Contents; Acknowledgement; Author's Note; Summary of Findings and Conclusions; An Overview; SECTION 1 ETHICS AND CLIMATE CHANGE; SECTION 2 ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITIES; SECTION 3 MEETING THE CHALLENGE OF CLIMATE CHANGE; Conclusion; Reading List; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: There are many things we can choose to do about climate change, including doing nothing at all. All of them have consequences, many of which will be unforeseen. If we could foretell more accurately what would happen to the climate in the future, our choices might be clearer, if not necessarily easier to make. Unfortunately, predicting future climate change is fraught with uncertainty, and we will be forced to make choices in the face of that uncertainty. To what extent are we motivated in this difficult process by a desire to do the ""right thing""? And how do we decide what is the right t
• Titolo autorizzato: Ethical Choices and Global Greenhouse Warming
• ISBN: 1-55458-671-2; 0-88920-830-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910154731103321
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