Climate Ethics
Essential Readings
Edited by Stephen Gardiner, Simon Caney, Dale Jamieson, and and Henry Shue
Foreword by Rajendra Kumar Pachauri
Table of Contents
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Preface
A. Overview
1. 'Ethics and Global Climate Change', Stephen M. Gardiner
B. The Nature of the Problem
2. 'The Economics of Climate Change', Nicholas Stern
3. 'Ethics, Public Policy and Global Warming', Dale Jamieson
4. 'A Perfect Moral Storm: Climate Change, Intergenerational Ethics and the Problem of Moral Corruption', Stephen M. Gardiner
C: Global Justice and Future Generations
5. 'Global Environment and International Inequality', Henry Shue
6. 'Energy Policy and the Further Future: The Identity Problem', Derek Parfit
7. 'Cosmopolitan Justice, Responsibility and Global Climate Change', Simon Caney.
8. 'Deadly Delays, Saving Opportunities: Creating a More Dangerous World?', Henry Shue
9. 'Climate Change, Human Rights and Moral Thresholds', Simon Caney
D: Policy Responses to Climate Change
10. 'One Atmosphere', Peter Singer
11. 'Subsistence Emissions and Luxury Emissions', Henry Shue
12. 'Greenhouse Development Rights: A Framework for Climate Protection that is "More Fair" than Equal per Capita Emissions Rights', Paul Baer, with Tom Athanasiou, Sivan Kartha and Eric Kemp-Benedict
13. 'Selling Environmental Indulgences', Robert Goodin
14. 'Adaptation: Who Pays Whom?', Paul Baer
15. 'Adaptation, Mitigation, and Justice', Dale Jamieson
16. 'Is "Arming the Future" with Geoengineering Really the Lesser Evil? Some Doubts About the Ethics of Intentionally Manipulating the Climate System', Stephen M. Gardiner
E. Individual Responsibility
17. 'When Utilitarians Should be Virtue Theorists', Dale Jamieson
18. 'It's Not My Fault: Global Warming and Individual Moral Obligations', Walter Sinnott Armstrong
References
Index