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Author: Alexander Hölzl Publisher: GRIN Verlag ISBN: 3346285065 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 21
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Seminar paper from the year 2020 in the subject Philosophy - Practical (Ethics, Aesthetics, Culture, Nature, Right, ...), grade: 2,0, University of Vienna, language: English, abstract: This paper discusses whether respectively how it is possible to ethically justify an individual moral obligation to act against climate change on the basis of Kant's categorical imperative. Actions against climate change might include using public transport instead of cars, avoiding travelling by aircraft, protesting for climate justice, supporting environmental organizations, boycotting oil companies, stopping wasteful consumption, refusing having a baby, using sustainable energy forms instead of fossil fuels, passing stricter laws or investing in the development of alternative energy forms.
Author: Alexander Hölzl Publisher: GRIN Verlag ISBN: 3346285065 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 21
Book Description
Seminar paper from the year 2020 in the subject Philosophy - Practical (Ethics, Aesthetics, Culture, Nature, Right, ...), grade: 2,0, University of Vienna, language: English, abstract: This paper discusses whether respectively how it is possible to ethically justify an individual moral obligation to act against climate change on the basis of Kant's categorical imperative. Actions against climate change might include using public transport instead of cars, avoiding travelling by aircraft, protesting for climate justice, supporting environmental organizations, boycotting oil companies, stopping wasteful consumption, refusing having a baby, using sustainable energy forms instead of fossil fuels, passing stricter laws or investing in the development of alternative energy forms.
Author: Dale E. Miller Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 135179289X Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 371
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Climate change has become the most pressing moral and political problem of our time. Ethical theories help us think clearly and more fully about important moral and political issues. And yet, to date, there have been no books that have brought together a broad range of ethical theories to apply them systematically to the problems of climate change. This volume fills that deep need. Two preliminary chapters—an up-to-date synopsis of climate science and an overview of the ethical issues raised by climate change—set the stage. After this, ten leading ethicists in ten separate chapters each present a major ethical theory (or, more broadly, perspective) and discuss the implications of that view for how we decide to respond to a rapidly warming planet. Each chapter first provides a brief exposition of the view before working out what that theory “has to say” about climate change and our response to the problems it poses. Key features: • Up-to-date synopsis of climate science • Clear overviews of a wide range of ethical theories and perspectives by leading experts • Insightful discussions of the implications of these theories and perspectives for our response to climate change • A unique opportunity to assess the relative strengths and weaknesses of various ethical viewpoints.
Author: Wouter Peeters Publisher: Springer ISBN: 113746450X Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 150
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This book discusses the agency and responsibility of individuals in climate change, and argues that these are underemphasized, enabling individuals to maintain their consumptive lifestyles without having to accept moral responsibility for their luxury emissions.
Author: Stephen Gardiner Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199889708 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 368
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This collection gathers a set of seminal papers from the emerging area of ethics and climate change. Topics covered include human rights, international justice, intergenerational ethics, individual responsibility, climate economics, and the ethics of geoengineering. Climate Ethics is intended to serve as a source book for general reference, and for university courses that include a focus on the human dimensions of climate change. It should be of broad interest to all those concerned with global justice, environmental science and policy, and the future of humanity.
Author: Paul G. Harris Publisher: Edinburgh University Press ISBN: 1474404847 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 224
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Finds solutions to the world's greatest challenge climate change in global ethicsNew for this editionIncludes recent climate diplomacy and international agreementsPresents current data and information on climate scienceUpdated statistics; e.g. in chapters and sections that look at poverty and wealthExpanded learning guide for students and lecturersGlobal Ethics and Climate Change combines the science of climate change with ethical critique to expose its impact, the increasing intensity of dangerous trends particularly growing global affluence, material consumption and pollution and the intensifying moral dimensions of changes to the environment. It shows you that global justice is vital to mitigating climate change. All of the author's royalties are being paid directly to the charity Oxfam
Author: Paul G. Harris Publisher: Edinburgh University Press ISBN: 0748642145 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 224
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More than two decades of international negotiations have failed to stem emissions of greenhouse gases that are causing global warming and climate change. This book identifies a way to escape this ongoing tragedy of the atmospheric commons. It takes a fresh approach to the ethics and practice of international environmental justice and proposes fundamental adjustments to the climate change regime, in the process drawing support from cosmopolitan ethics and global conceptions of justice. The author argues for 'cosmopolitan diplomacy', which sees people, rather than states alone, as the causes of climate change and the bearers of related rights, duties and obligations.
Author: Jenni Ronda Publisher: ISBN: 9781088183090 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 0
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Climatic changes are happening around the globe. The science of climate change affirms that most of these changes have been brought about by the actions of human beings. While trying to understand the concept of anthropogenic climate change it is noticed that significant ethical issues surround it and the question of responsibility becomes vital. Certain ethical issues including responsibility associated with climate change are discussed in this Book. This research examines and reviews some general or traditional concepts of individual and collective responsibility along with some specific literature concerning climate change responsibility. The work of two philosophers, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Baylor Johnson is quite influential in this regard. The central idea of the arguments offered by both the philosophers is that unless everybody acts, individual efforts to diminish carbon emissions will have little or no effect on climate change. For instance Sinnott-Armstrong assesses and rejects several ethical principles to arrive at the conclusion that one has no moral obligations to limit one's personal emissions in climate change. This idea is analyzed and shown to be inconsistent in this research. Alternatively it is agreed that the moral theories which Sinnott-Armstrong considers do not put a restraint on the individual to curb her greenhouse gas emissions. Thereby a need to propose a different way of ascertaining moral obligation in climate change is recognized. A knowledge based ethical relativist theory is suggested for the same. This theory expects the agent to act in the light of the knowledge that exists and illustrates that commitments at the individual level cannot be different from the commitments at collective level if one has knowledge about it that exist in today's world in case of climate change. It is concluded that this knowledge based ethical theory is one possible way to assign responsibility in climate change but concomitantly it is also admitted that this theory may face certain limitations.
Author: Anna Luisa Lippold Publisher: Mentis ISBN: 9783957431851 Category : Languages : en Pages : 294
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What ought individual agents do with regard to climate change? This book challenges the common intuition that every individual agent is morally required to do her bit by refraining from individual polluting actions and still does not leave individuals off the hook. Climate change requires an extremely ambitious, collective solution. This book defends the primacy of promotional duties and focuses on getting individuals as members of society involved. By taking a rights-based approach, it provides a profound normative basis to lead a heated discussion e.g. with regard to what can reasonably be demanded of individuals. Next to addressing duties of specific groups of agents such as young parents, this book aims to derive concrete recommendations for action. But, more broadly, it aims to empower individual agents to finally be able to make a meaningful difference in the global fought against climate change.
Author: Alexander Hölzl
Author: Alexander Hölzl
Author: Dale E. Miller
Author: Wouter Peeters
Author: Stephen Gardiner
Author: Michael Cholbi
Author: Paul G. Harris
Author: Paul G. Harris
Author: Jenni Ronda
Author: Immanuel Kant
Author: Anna Luisa Lippold