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Stephen M. Gardiner and David A. Weisbach present arguments for and against the relevance of ethics to global climate policy. Gardiner argues that climate change is fundamentally an ethical issue rather than one of narrow economic self-interest, while Weisbach argues that existing ethical theories are flawed and do not provide guidance for climate policy.
Stephen M. Gardiner is Professor of Philosophy and Ben Rabinowitz Endowed Professor of the Human Dimensions of the Environment at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is the author of A Perfect Moral Storm (Oxford, 2011), editor of Virtue Ethics, Old and New (Cornell, 2005), and co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Environmental Ethics (Oxford, in press) and Climate Ethics: Essential Readings (Oxford, 2010). His research focuses on global environmental problems, future generations and virtue ethics. David A. Weisbach is the Walter J Blum Professor at the University of Chicago Law School and Senior Fellow at the University of Chicago Computation Institute and Argonne National Laboratories. Weisbach's research primarily focuses on issues related to taxation and on policy aspects of climate change. Weisbach received his BS in Mathematics from the University of Michigan in 1985; a Masters in Advance Study (Mathematics) from Wolfson College, Cambridge in 1986; and a JD from Harvard Law School in 1989. After graduating from law school, Weisbach clerked for Judge Joel M. Flaum of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and worked as an associate in the law firm of Miller & Chevalier. In 1992, Weisbach joined the Department of Treasury where he worked as an attorney-advisor in the Office of the Tax Legislative Counsel and, subsequently, as associate tax legislative counsel. In 1996, Weisbach was appointed Associate Professor of Law at Georgetown Law Center and joined the Chicago faculty in 1998.
Show moreStephen M. Gardiner and David A. Weisbach present arguments for and against the relevance of ethics to global climate policy. Gardiner argues that climate change is fundamentally an ethical issue rather than one of narrow economic self-interest, while Weisbach argues that existing ethical theories are flawed and do not provide guidance for climate policy.
Stephen M. Gardiner is Professor of Philosophy and Ben Rabinowitz Endowed Professor of the Human Dimensions of the Environment at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is the author of A Perfect Moral Storm (Oxford, 2011), editor of Virtue Ethics, Old and New (Cornell, 2005), and co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Environmental Ethics (Oxford, in press) and Climate Ethics: Essential Readings (Oxford, 2010). His research focuses on global environmental problems, future generations and virtue ethics. David A. Weisbach is the Walter J Blum Professor at the University of Chicago Law School and Senior Fellow at the University of Chicago Computation Institute and Argonne National Laboratories. Weisbach's research primarily focuses on issues related to taxation and on policy aspects of climate change. Weisbach received his BS in Mathematics from the University of Michigan in 1985; a Masters in Advance Study (Mathematics) from Wolfson College, Cambridge in 1986; and a JD from Harvard Law School in 1989. After graduating from law school, Weisbach clerked for Judge Joel M. Flaum of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and worked as an associate in the law firm of Miller & Chevalier. In 1992, Weisbach joined the Department of Treasury where he worked as an attorney-advisor in the Office of the Tax Legislative Counsel and, subsequently, as associate tax legislative counsel. In 1996, Weisbach was appointed Associate Professor of Law at Georgetown Law Center and joined the Chicago faculty in 1998.
Show morePart I By Stephen M. Gardiner
1. How Will We be Remembered?
2. Betraying the Future
3. Who Are We and What Do We Want?
4. Justice vs. Extortion
Part II By David A. Weisbach
5. Introduction to Part II
6. Climate Policy and Self-Interest
7. The Role of Claims of Justice in Climate Change Policy
8. Summing Up
Part III Responses
9. 'The Feasible is Political'
10. Weisbach Responds to Gardiner
Stephen M. Gardiner is Professor of Philosophy and Ben Rabinowitz
Endowed Professor of the Human Dimensions of the Environment at the
University of Washington, Seattle. He is the author of A Perfect
Moral Storm (Oxford, 2011), editor of Virtue Ethics, Old and New
(Cornell, 2005), and co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of
Environmental Ethics (Oxford, in press) and Climate Ethics:
Essential Readings (Oxford, 2010). His research focuses on
global
environmental problems, future generations and virtue ethics.
David Weisbach is the Walter J Blum Professor at the University of
Chicago Law School and Senior Fellow at the University of Chicago
Computation Institute and Argonne National Laboratories. Weisbach's
research primarily focuses on issues related to taxation and on
policy aspects of climate change.
Weisbach received his BS in Mathematics from the University of
Michigan in 1985; a Masters in Advance Study (Mathematics) from
Wolfson College, Cambridge in 1986; and a JD from Harvard Law
School in 1989. After graduating from law school, Weisbach clerked
for Judge Joel M. Flaum of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
Seventh Circuit and worked as an associate in the law firm of
Miller & Chevalier. In 1992, Weisbach joined the Department of
Treasury where he worked as an attorney-advisor
in the Office of the Tax Legislative Counsel and, subsequently, as
associate tax legislative counsel. In 1996, Weisbach was appointed
Associate Professor of Law at Georgetown Law Center and joined the
Chicago
faculty in 1998.
"One of the most refreshing aspects of Gardiner and Weisbach's
contribution to this debate is that both of them--Gardiner a
philosopher, Weisbach an economist--think that rapid
decarbonization must be the paramount aim of climate policy...this
is an extremely valuable book and I recommend it warmly. Both
authors display an admirable tenacity, courage, forbearance, and
intelligence. Their debate marks a significant advance in our
attempts to grapple with this
most serious of issues." -- Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
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