Climate Change Ethics

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Abstract

This article examines some of the major theoretical components of climate change ethics. These include: the nature of challenge posed to human societies by climate change as well as the phenomenon of climate change denial; the central question of justice in efforts to grapple with climate change, especially the distribution of clean up costs; the claim that economic considerations alone can guide us in this area; the problem of individual responsibility for climate change; and the “catastrophic” framing of the problem adopted by many climate change ethicists and its connection to the nonidentity problem.

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