Ethics and Global Climate Change [Paperback]

The planet is undergoing a global change in climate that has begun to negatively affect populations and is predicted to accelerate in the coming decades. The human beings now on Earth are the first to exist when the climatic dynamics of the planet are scientifically understood. That understanding makes patently clear that the aggregate effects of human activities have a distinct impact on planetary climate and the way humans will live, if they survive, in the future. This appears to be a tipping point time in human history when future climatic catastrophes that threaten generations of humans might be preventable if governments, institutions, and organizations now take mitigating actions. That suggests that the people currently alive on the planet bear a collective responsibility to address the negative human impact on climate.

The Struggle for Climate Justice in a Non-Ideal World Simon Caney 9

Climate Justice Beyond International Burden Sharing Steve Vanderheiden 27

Equalizing the Intergenerational Burdens of Climate Change - An Alternative to Discounted Utilitarianism Darrel Moellendorf Axel Schaffer 43

High Stakes: Inertia or Transformation? Henry Shue 63

Climate Policy when Preference Are Endogenous: And Sometimes They Are Linus Mattauch Cameron Hepburn 76

Two Theories of Responsibility for Past Emissions of Carbon Dioxide Michelle Hayner David Weisbach 96

On Climate Matters: Offsetting, Population, and Justice Elizabeth Cripps 114

Climate Matters Pro Tanto, Does It Matter Alb Things-Considered? Holly Lawford-Smith 129

Climate Matters for Future People Paul Bou-Habib 143

A Reply To My Critics John Broome 158

No Justice in Climate Policy? Broome versus Posner, Weisbach, and Gardiner Alyssa R. Bernstein 172

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