Reason in a dark time : why the struggle against climate change failed and what it means for our future / / Dale Jamieson
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Jamieson Dale
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Reason in a dark time : why the struggle against climate change failed and what it means for our future / / Dale Jamieson
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| Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xvi, 266 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina: | 363.738/74 |
| Soggetto topico: | Environmental sciences |
| Environmental ethics | |
| Human ecology | |
| Social ecology | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | ; Introduction -- The nature of the problem : The development of climate science ; Climate change as a public issue ; The age of climate diplomacy -- Obstacles to action : Scientific ignorance ; Politicizing science ; Facts and values ; The science/policy interface ; Organized denial ; Partisanship ; Political institutions ; The hardest problem -- The limits of economics : Economics and climate change ; The Stern Review and its critics ; Discounting ; Further problems ; State of the discussion -- The frontiers of ethics : The domain of concern ; Responsibility and harm ; Fault liability ; Human rights and domination ; Differences that matter ; Revising morality -- Living with climate change : Life in the anthropocene ; It doesn't matter what I do ; It's not the meat, it's the motion ; Ethics for the anthropocene ; Respect for nature ; Global justice -- Politics, policy, and the road ahead : The rectification of names ; Adaptation: the neglected option? ; Why we need more than adaptation ; The category formerly known as geoengineering ; The way forward. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | From the 1992 Rio Earth Summit to the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Conference there was a concerted international effort to stop climate change. This book is about what climate change is, why we failed to stop it, and why it still matters what we do. |
| Altri titoli varianti: | Why the struggle against climate change failed and what it means for our future |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Reason in a dark time |
| ISBN: | 0-19-933768-3 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910154340703321 |
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