The Ethics of Global Climate Change [Paperback]

Argues for new ways of conceptualising our ethical obligations regarding global climate change and responds to first-generation literature.Global climate change is the most daunting ethical and political challenge confronting humanity in the twenty-first century. In this book, authors argue for new ways of conceptualizing our ethical obligations in order to address a problem of this scope and difficulty.Global climate change is the most daunting ethical and political challenge confronting humanity in the twenty-first century. In this book, authors argue for new ways of conceptualizing our ethical obligations in order to address a problem of this scope and difficulty.Global climate change is one of the most daunting ethical and political challenges confronting humanity in the twenty-first century. The intergenerational and transnational ethical issues raised by climate change have been the focus of a significant body of scholarship. In this new collection of essays, leading scholars engage and respond to first-generation scholarship and argue for new ways of thinking about our ethical obligations to present and future generations. Topics addressed in these essays include moral accountability for energy consumption and emissions, egalitarian and libertarian perspectives on mitigation, justice in relation to cap-and trade schemes, the ethics of adaptation, and the ethical dimensions of the impact of climate change on nature.Introduction: climate change and ethics Denis G. Arnold; 1. Energy, ethics and the transformation of nature Dale Jamieson; 2. Is no one responsible for global environmental tragedy? Climate change as challenge in our ethical concepts Stephen Gardiner; 3. Greenhouse gas emission and the domination of posterity John Nolt; 4. Climate change, energy rights and equality Simon Caney; 5. Common atmospheric ownership and equal emissions entitlements Darrel Moellendorf; 6. A Lockean defense of grandfathering emission rights Luc Bovens; 7. Parenting the planl3>