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This collection gathers a set of seminal papers from the emerging area of ethics and climate change. Topics covered include human rights, international justice, intergenerational ethics, individual responsibility, climate economics, and the ethics of geoengineering. Climate Ethics is intended to serve as a source book for general reference, and for university courses that include a focus on the human dimensions of climate change. It should be of broad
interest to all those concerned with global justice, environmental science and policy, and the future of humanity.
This collection gathers a set of seminal papers from the emerging area of ethics and climate change. Topics covered include human rights, international justice, intergenerational ethics, individual responsibility, climate economics, and the ethics of geoengineering. Climate Ethics is intended to serve as a source book for general reference, and for university courses that include a focus on the human dimensions of climate change. It should be of broad
interest to all those concerned with global justice, environmental science and policy, and the future of humanity.
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Preface
A. Overview
1: Stephen M. Gardiner: 'Ethics and Global Climate Change'
B. The Nature of the Problem
2: Nicholas Stern: 'The Economics of Climate Change'
3: Dale Jamieson: 'Ethics, Public Policy and Global Warming'
4: Stephen M. Gardiner: 'A Perfect Moral Storm: Climate Change,
Intergenerational Ethics and the Problem of Moral Corruption'
C: Global Justice and Future Generations
5: Henry Shue: 'Global Environment and International
Inequality'
6: Derek Parfit: 'Energy Policy and the Further Future: The
Identity Problem'
7: 'Cosmopolitan Justice, Responsibility and Global Climate
Change', Simon Caney.
8: Henry Shue: 'Deadly Delays, Saving Opportunities: Creating a
More Dangerous World?'
9: Simon Caney: 'Climate Change, Human Rights and Moral
Thresholds'
D: Policy Responses to Climate Change
10: Peter Singer: 'One Atmosphere'
11: Henry Shue: 'Subsistence Emissions and Luxury Emissions'
12: Paul Baer, with Tom Athanasiou, Sivan Kartha and Eric
Kemp-Benedict: 'Greenhouse Development Rights: A Framework for
Climate Protection that is "More Fair" than Equal per Capita
Emissions Rights'
13: Robert Goodin: 'Selling Environmental Indulgences'
14: Paul Baer: 'Adaptation: Who Pays Whom?'
15: Dale Jamieson: 'Adaptation, Mitigation, and Justice'
16: Stephen M. Gardiner: 'Is "Arming the Future" with
Geoengineering Really the Lesser Evil? Some Doubts About the Ethics
of Intentionally Manipulating the Climate System'
E. Individual Responsibility
17: Dale Jamieson: 'When Utilitarians Should be Virtue
Theorists'
18: Walter Sinnott Armstrong: 'It's Not My Fault: Global Warming
and Individual Moral Obligations'
References
Index
Simon Caney is Professor in Political Theory and Tutorial Fellow in
Politics at Magdalen College, Oxford University.
Stephen Gardiner is Associate Professor of Philosophy at University
of Washington.
Dale Jamieson is Director of Environmental Studies at New York
University.
Henry Shue is Senior Research Fellow at Centre for International
Studies, Oxford University.
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