Climate Change Ethics and the Non-Human World

✍ Scribed by Brian G. Henning, Zack Walsh

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 227
• Series: Routledge Research in the Anthropocene
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book examines from different perspectives the moral significance of non-human members of the biotic community and their omission from climate ethics literature.

The complexity of life in an age of rapid climate change demands the development of moral frameworks that recognize and respect the dignity and agency of both human and non-human organisms. Despite decades of careful work in non-anthropocentric approaches to environmental ethics, recent anthologies on climate ethics have largely omitted non-anthropocentric approaches. This multidisciplinary volume of international scholars tackles this lacuna by presenting novel work on non-anthropocentric approaches to climate ethics. Written in an accessible style, the text incorporates sentiocentric, biocentric, and ecocentric perspectives on climate change.

With diverse perspectives from both leading and emerging scholars of environmental ethics, geography, religious studies, conservation ecology, and environmental studies, this book will offer a valuable reading for students and scholars of these fields.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Series
Title
Copyright
Contents
Contributors
Foreword
Introduction
1 Climate change and the loss of non-human welfare
2 Anthropocentrism and the Anthropocene: restoration and geoengineering as negative paradigms of epistemological domination
3 Climate ethics bridging animal ethics to overcome climate inaction: an approach from strategic visual communication
4 Suffering, sentientism, and sustainability: an analysis of a non-anthropocentric moral framework for climate ethics
5 Biocentrism, climate change, and the spatial and temporal scope of ethics
6 Evaluating climate change with the language of the forms of life
7 Thinking through the Anthropocene: educating for a planetary community
8 Conflicting advice: resolving conflicting moral recommendations in climate and environmental ethics
9 An eco-centric proposal for setting a price on greenhouse gas emissions
10 Being human: an ecocentric approach to climate ethics
11 Atmospheres of object-oriented ontology
12 Monsters, metamorphoses, and the horror of ethics in the “Pelagioscene”
13 Gut check: imagining a posthuman “Climate”
14 Wonderland Earth in the Anthropocene epoch
Index