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246Climate Change and the Challenge of Moral ResponsibilityJournal of Philosophical Research 32 (9999): 85-92. 2007.The phenomenon of anthropogenic climate change—in which weather patterns and attendant ecological disruption result from increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere through human activities—challenges several conventional assumptions regarding moral responsibility. Multifarious individual acts and choices contribute (often imperceptibly) to the causal chain that is expected to produce profound and lasting harm unless significant mitigation efforts begin soon. Attri…Read more
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52Stephen M. Gardiner, A Perfect Moral Storm: The Ethical Tragedy of Climate Change (review)Environmental Ethics 34 (3): 331-332. 2012.
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13Justice in the GreenhouseSocial Philosophy Today 19 89-101. 2003.The current debate surrounding the implementation of the Kyoto Treaty raises several issues that ought to be of interest to social and political philosophers. Proponents and critics alike have invoked ideas of fairness in justification of their positions. The two distinct conceptions of fairness that are involved in this debate—one of fair shares, and another of fair burdens—helpfully illuminate the proper role of fairness in designing an equitable and effective global climate regime. In this pa…Read more
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109Distinguishing Mitigation and AdaptationEthics, Place and Environment 12 (3): 283-286. 2009.Baer et al. seek to develop a single index for distributing the burdens associated with climate change mitigation and adaptation, and to do so in a...
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158Atmospheric Justice: A Political Theory of Climate ChangeOxford University Press. 2008.When the policies and activities of one country or generation harm both other nations and later generations, they constitute serious injustices. Recognizing the broad threat posed by anthropogenic climate change, advocates for an international climate policy development process have expressly aimed to mitigate this pressing contemporary environmental threat in a manner that promotes justice. Yet, while making justice a primary objective of global climate policy has been the movement's noblest as…Read more
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11Review of Understanding Environmental Policy (review)Environmental Ethics 29 (4): 443-444. 2007.
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University of Colorado, BoulderRegular Faculty
Boulder, Colorado, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Applied Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |