The Ethics of Global Climate Change

Global climate change is one of the most daunting ethical and political challenges confronting humanity in the twenty-first century. The intergenerational and transnational ethical issues raised by climate change have been the focus of a significant body of scholarship. In this new collection of essays, leading scholars engage and respond to first-generation scholarship and argue for new ways of thinking about our ethical obligations to present and future generations. Topics addressed in these essays include moral accountability for energy consumption and emissions, egalitarian and libertarian perspectives on mitigation, justice in relation to cap-and trade schemes, the ethics of adaptation, and the ethical dimensions of the impact of climate change on nature.

Author: Denis G. Arnold
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 03/31/2011
Pages: 354
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781107000698

Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2011

About the Author
Arnold, Denis G.: - Denis G. Arnold is the Jule and Marguerite Surtman Distinguished Professor in Business Ethics at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. He is the author of The Ethics of Global Business (2010) and the editor of Ethics and the Business of Biomedicine (Cambridge University Press, 2009).

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