The Moral Challenge of Dangerous Climate Change: Values, Poverty, and Policy
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| Anteprima |
This
book examines the threat that climate change poses to the projects of
poverty eradication, sustainable development, and biodiversity
preservation. It offers a careful discussion of the values that support
these projects and a critical evaluation of the normative bases of
climate change policy. This book regards climate change policy as a
public problem that normative philosophy can shed light on. It assumes
that the development of policy should be based on values regarding what
is important to respect, preserve, and protect. What sort of climate
change policy do we owe the poor of the world who are particularly
vulnerable to climate change? Why should our generation take on the
burden of mitigating climate change that is caused, in no small part, by
emissions from people now dead? What value is lost when natural species
go extinct, as they may well do en masse because of climate change?
This book presents a broad and inclusive discussion of climate change
policy, relevant to those with interests in public policy, development
studies, environmental studies, political theory, and moral and
political philosophy.
