Climate matters: ethics in a warming world

✍ Scribed by Broome, John

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Year: 2012
Tongue: English
Series: Amnesty International global ethics series
Edition: 1st ed
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Introduction -- Science -- Economics -- Justice and fairness -- Private morality -- Goodness -- Uncertainty -- The future versus the present -- Lives -- Population -- Summary.;A philosopher discusses the climate change debate, including the science of greenhouse gasses, offsetting carbon emissions and the choices facing policymakers by filtering the issues through the universal philosophical standards of goodness and justice.

✦ Table of Contents

Introduction --
Science --
Economics --
Justice and fairness --
Private morality --
Goodness --
Uncertainty --
The future versus the present --
Lives --
Population --
Summary.

✦ Subjects

Climate Change;Climatic changes--Moral and ethical aspects;Environment;Environmental Policy;Global Warming;Klimaänderung;Klimaschutz;Society;Umweltethik;Environmental ethics;Nonfiction;Climatic changes -- Moral and ethical aspects;Klimaänderung

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