Ebook: Debating climate ethics
- Tags: Environmental ethics, Climatic changes, Moral and ethical aspects, PHILOSOPHY, Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Umweltethik, Klimaänderung
- Series: Debating ethics
- Year: 2016
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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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.
Abstract: 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