A perfect moral storm
Subtitle: the ethical tragedy of climate change
By: Stephen M. Gardiner
Series: Environmental ethics and science policy series; Environmental ethics and science policy
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 489
ISBN-13: 9780195379440
Subjects: Moral and ethical aspects; Climatic changes; Environmental ethics; Environmental responsibility; Global warming
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the global environmental tragedy; title: A perfect moral storm; title: The consumption tragedy; title: Somebody else's problem?; title: A shadowy and evolving tragedy; title: The tyranny of the contemporary; title: An intergenerational arms race?; title: A global test for contemporary political institutions and theories; title: Cost-benefit paralysis; title: Jane Austen vs. climate economics; title: Geoengineering in an atmosphere of evil; title: Some initial ethics of the transition; title: The immediate future; title: Appendix 1 : the population tragedy; title: Appendix 2 : epistemic corruption and scientific uncertainty in Michael Crichton's State of fear.