Debating Climate Ethics

by Stephen M. Gardiner, David A Weisbach, David A. Weisbach

Book Overview

In this volume, 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, since it is an early instance of a distinctive challenge to ethical action (the perfect moral storm), and ethical concerns (such as with justice, rights, political legitimacy, community and humanity's relationship to nature) are at the heart...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199996482
• ISBN13: 9780199996483
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: OUP Us
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.2"