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A Perfect Moral Storm
The Ethical Tragedy of Climate Change
Taschenbuch von Stephen M. Gardiner
Sprache: Englisch

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Climate change is arguably the great problem confronting humanity, but we have done little to head off this looming disaster. In The Perfect Moral Storm, Stephen Gardiner illuminates our dangerous inaction by placing the environmental crisis in an entirely new light, considering it as an ethical failure.
Climate change is arguably the great problem confronting humanity, but we have done little to head off this looming disaster. In The Perfect Moral Storm, Stephen Gardiner illuminates our dangerous inaction by placing the environmental crisis in an entirely new light, considering it as an ethical failure.
Über den Autor
Stephen M. Gardiner is Professor of Philosophy and Ben Rabinowitz Endowed Professor of Human Dimensions of the Environment at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is the coordinating co-editor of Climate Ethics: Essential Readings (Oxford, 2010), and the editor of Virtue Ethics: Old and New (Cornell, 2005). He is currently co-editing the Oxford Handbook on Environmental Ethics with Allen Thompson.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Contents

  • Preface

  • Acknowledgements

  • Introduction: A Global Environmental Tragedy

  • I. Some Assumptions

  • II. Introducing the Perfect Storm Metaphor

  • III. Climate Change

  • IV. The Wider Relevance of the Model

  • V. Outline of the Book

  • Part A: Overview

  • Chapter 1: A Perfect Moral Storm

  • I. Why Ethics?

  • II. The Global Storm

  • III. The Intergenerational Storm

  • IV. The Theoretical Storm

  • V. The Problem of Moral Corruption

  • Chapter 2: A Consumption Tragedy

  • I. What is the Point of Game Theory?

  • II. Motivating the Models

  • III. A Green Energy Revolution?

  • IV. Consumption and Happiness

  • Part B: The Global Storm

  • Chapter 3: Somebody Else's Problem

  • I. Past Climate Policy

  • II. Somebody Else's Burden

  • III. Against Optimism

  • IV. Conclusion

  • Chapter 4: In the Shadow of a Common Tragedy

  • I. Climate Prisoners?

  • II. An Evolving Tragedy

  • III. Beyond Pessimism

  • IV. Lingering Tragedy

  • V. Climate Policy in the Shadows

  • VI. Conclusion

  • Part C: The Intergenerational Storm

  • Chapter 5: The Tyranny of the Contemporary

  • I. Problems with 'Generations'

  • II. Intergenerational Buck-Passing

  • III. Intergenerational Buck-Passing vs. The Prisoners' Dilemma

  • IV. The Features of the Pure Intergenerational Problem

  • V. Applications and Complications

  • VI. Mitigating Factors

  • VII. The Non-Identity Problem: A Quick Aside

  • VIII. Conclusion

  • Chapter 6: An Intergenerational Arms Race?

  • I. Abrupt Climate Change

  • II. Three Causes of Political Inertia

  • III. Against Undermining

  • IV. Conclusion

  • Part D: The Theoretical Storm

  • Chapter 7: A Global Test for Political Institutions and Theories

  • I. The Global Test

  • II. Scenarios

  • III. A Conjecture

  • IV. Theoretical Vices

  • V. An Illustration: Utilitarianism

  • VI. Understanding the Complaint

  • VII. Conclusion

  • Chapter 8: Cost-Benefit Paralysis

  • I. Cost-Benefit Analysis in Normal Contexts

  • II. CBA for Climate Change

  • III. The Presumption Against Discounting

  • IV. The Basic Economics of the Discount Rate

  • V. Discounting the Rich?

  • VI. Declining Discount Rates

  • VII. Two Objections to "Not Discounting"

  • VIII. The "Devil's in the Details" Argument

  • IX. Conclusions

  • Part E: Moral Corruption

  • Chapter 9: Jane Austen vs. Climate Economics

  • I. Corruption

  • II. The Dubious Dashwoods: Initial Parallels

  • III. The Opening Assault on the Status of the Moral Claim

  • IV. The Assault on Content

  • V. Indirect Attacks

  • VI. The Moral of the Story

  • Chapter 10: Geoengineering in an Atmosphere of Evil

  • I. An Idea that is Changing the World

  • II. The Problem of Political Inertia Revisited

  • III. Two Preliminary Arguments: Cost and "Research First"?

  • IV. Arming the Future

  • V. Arm the Present?

  • VI. Evolving Shadows

  • VII. Underestimating 'Evil'

  • VIII. An Atmosphere of Evil?

  • IX. "But... Should We Do It?"

  • Part F: What Now?

  • Conclusion: The Immediate Future

  • Postscript: Some Initial Ethics of the Transition

  • I. Introduction

  • II. The Ethics of Skepticism

  • III. Past Emissions

  • IV. Future Emissions

  • V. Responsibility

  • VI. Ideal Theory

  • VII. Conclusion

  • Appendices

  • Appendix 1: The Population Tragedy

  • I. Hardin's Analysis

  • II. Population as a Tragedy of the Commons

  • III. Total Environmental Impact

  • IV. Conclusion

  • Appendix 2: Epistemic Corruption and Scientific Uncertainty in

  • Michael Crichton's State of Fear

  • I. What the Scientists Know

  • II. Certainty, Guesswork and the Missing Middle

  • III. Conclusion

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Philosophie
Jahrhundert: Antike
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780199985142
ISBN-10: 0199985146
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Gardiner, Stephen M.
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Maße: 234 x 156 x 28 mm
Von/Mit: Stephen M. Gardiner
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.03.2013
Gewicht: 0,778 kg
Artikel-ID: 108613223
Über den Autor
Stephen M. Gardiner is Professor of Philosophy and Ben Rabinowitz Endowed Professor of Human Dimensions of the Environment at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is the coordinating co-editor of Climate Ethics: Essential Readings (Oxford, 2010), and the editor of Virtue Ethics: Old and New (Cornell, 2005). He is currently co-editing the Oxford Handbook on Environmental Ethics with Allen Thompson.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Contents

  • Preface

  • Acknowledgements

  • Introduction: A Global Environmental Tragedy

  • I. Some Assumptions

  • II. Introducing the Perfect Storm Metaphor

  • III. Climate Change

  • IV. The Wider Relevance of the Model

  • V. Outline of the Book

  • Part A: Overview

  • Chapter 1: A Perfect Moral Storm

  • I. Why Ethics?

  • II. The Global Storm

  • III. The Intergenerational Storm

  • IV. The Theoretical Storm

  • V. The Problem of Moral Corruption

  • Chapter 2: A Consumption Tragedy

  • I. What is the Point of Game Theory?

  • II. Motivating the Models

  • III. A Green Energy Revolution?

  • IV. Consumption and Happiness

  • Part B: The Global Storm

  • Chapter 3: Somebody Else's Problem

  • I. Past Climate Policy

  • II. Somebody Else's Burden

  • III. Against Optimism

  • IV. Conclusion

  • Chapter 4: In the Shadow of a Common Tragedy

  • I. Climate Prisoners?

  • II. An Evolving Tragedy

  • III. Beyond Pessimism

  • IV. Lingering Tragedy

  • V. Climate Policy in the Shadows

  • VI. Conclusion

  • Part C: The Intergenerational Storm

  • Chapter 5: The Tyranny of the Contemporary

  • I. Problems with 'Generations'

  • II. Intergenerational Buck-Passing

  • III. Intergenerational Buck-Passing vs. The Prisoners' Dilemma

  • IV. The Features of the Pure Intergenerational Problem

  • V. Applications and Complications

  • VI. Mitigating Factors

  • VII. The Non-Identity Problem: A Quick Aside

  • VIII. Conclusion

  • Chapter 6: An Intergenerational Arms Race?

  • I. Abrupt Climate Change

  • II. Three Causes of Political Inertia

  • III. Against Undermining

  • IV. Conclusion

  • Part D: The Theoretical Storm

  • Chapter 7: A Global Test for Political Institutions and Theories

  • I. The Global Test

  • II. Scenarios

  • III. A Conjecture

  • IV. Theoretical Vices

  • V. An Illustration: Utilitarianism

  • VI. Understanding the Complaint

  • VII. Conclusion

  • Chapter 8: Cost-Benefit Paralysis

  • I. Cost-Benefit Analysis in Normal Contexts

  • II. CBA for Climate Change

  • III. The Presumption Against Discounting

  • IV. The Basic Economics of the Discount Rate

  • V. Discounting the Rich?

  • VI. Declining Discount Rates

  • VII. Two Objections to "Not Discounting"

  • VIII. The "Devil's in the Details" Argument

  • IX. Conclusions

  • Part E: Moral Corruption

  • Chapter 9: Jane Austen vs. Climate Economics

  • I. Corruption

  • II. The Dubious Dashwoods: Initial Parallels

  • III. The Opening Assault on the Status of the Moral Claim

  • IV. The Assault on Content

  • V. Indirect Attacks

  • VI. The Moral of the Story

  • Chapter 10: Geoengineering in an Atmosphere of Evil

  • I. An Idea that is Changing the World

  • II. The Problem of Political Inertia Revisited

  • III. Two Preliminary Arguments: Cost and "Research First"?

  • IV. Arming the Future

  • V. Arm the Present?

  • VI. Evolving Shadows

  • VII. Underestimating 'Evil'

  • VIII. An Atmosphere of Evil?

  • IX. "But... Should We Do It?"

  • Part F: What Now?

  • Conclusion: The Immediate Future

  • Postscript: Some Initial Ethics of the Transition

  • I. Introduction

  • II. The Ethics of Skepticism

  • III. Past Emissions

  • IV. Future Emissions

  • V. Responsibility

  • VI. Ideal Theory

  • VII. Conclusion

  • Appendices

  • Appendix 1: The Population Tragedy

  • I. Hardin's Analysis

  • II. Population as a Tragedy of the Commons

  • III. Total Environmental Impact

  • IV. Conclusion

  • Appendix 2: Epistemic Corruption and Scientific Uncertainty in

  • Michael Crichton's State of Fear

  • I. What the Scientists Know

  • II. Certainty, Guesswork and the Missing Middle

  • III. Conclusion

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Philosophie
Jahrhundert: Antike
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780199985142
ISBN-10: 0199985146
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Gardiner, Stephen M.
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Maße: 234 x 156 x 28 mm
Von/Mit: Stephen M. Gardiner
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.03.2013
Gewicht: 0,778 kg
Artikel-ID: 108613223
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