The Ethics of Climate Change An Introduction The Ethics of ... Series

The Ethics of Climate Change: An Introduction systematically and comprehensively examines the ethical issues surrounding arguably the greatest threat now facing humanity. Williston addresses important questions such as:

• Has humanity entered the Anthropocene?
• Is climate change primarily an ethical issue?
• Does climate change represent a moral wrong?
• What are the impacts of climate change?
• What are the main causes of political inaction?
• What is the argument for climate change denial?
• What are intragenerational justice and intergenerational justice?
• To what extent is climate change an economic problem?
• Is geoengineering an ethically appropriate response to climate change?

Featuring case studies throughout, this textbook provides a philosophical introduction to an immensely topical issue studied by students within the fields of applied ethics, global justice, sustainability, geography, and politics.

Introduction. Chapter 1: The basic science. Chapter 2: What is climate change ethics? Chapter 3: Precautionary policy. Chapter 4: International justice. Chapter 5: Intergenerational justice. Chapter 6: Nature in the Anthropocene. Chapter 7: Individual duties. Chapter 8: Climate change denial. Chapter 9: Geoengineering. Glossary. Index.

Byron Williston is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. He is the author of The Anthropocene Project: Virtue in the Age of Climate Change (2015).