A perfect moral storm
Subtitle: understanding the ethical tragedy of climate change
By: Stephen M. Gardiner
Series: Environmental ethics and science policy series
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 489
ISBN-13: 9780195379440
Description: Climate change is arguably the great problem confronting humanity, but we have done little to head off this looming catastrophe. In this book, the author illuminates our dangerous inaction by placing the environmental crisis in an entirely new light, considering it as an "ethical" failure. He clarifies the moral situation, identifying the temptations (or "storms") that make us vulnerable to a certain kind of corruption.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : a global environmental tragedy; title: A perfect moral storm; title: A consumption tragedy; title: Somebody else's problem; title: In the shadow of a common tragedy; title: The tyranny of the contemporary; title: An intergenerational arms race?; title: A global test for political institutions and theories; title: Cost-benefit paralysis; title: Jane Austen vs. climate economics; title: Geoengineering in an atmosphere of evil; title: Conclusion : the immediate future; title: Postscript : some initial ethics of the transition; title: Appendix 1 : the population tragedy; title: Appendix 2 : epistemic corruption and scientific uncertainty in Michael Crichton's state of fear.