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A Perfect Moral Storm: The Ethical Tragedy of Climate Change

A Perfect Moral Storm: The Ethical Tragedy of Climate Change

Gardiner, Stephen M.

Paperback

Series: Environmental Ethics and Science Policy

Philosophy

ISBN10: 0199985146
ISBN13: 9780199985142
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Mar 1 2013
Pages: 518
Weight: 1.65
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
Climate change is arguably the great problem confronting humanity, but we have done little to head off this looming catastrophe. In The Perfect Moral Storm, philosopher Stephen Gardiner illuminates our dangerous inaction by placing the environmental crisis in an entirely new light, considering it as an ethical failure. Gardiner clarifies the moral situation, identifying the temptations (or storms) that make us vulnerable to a certain kind of corruption. First, the world's most affluent nations are tempted to pass on the cost of climate change to the poorer and weaker citizens of the world. Second, the present generation is tempted to pass the problem on to future generations. Third, our poor grasp of science, international justice, and the human relationship to nature helps to facilitate inaction. As a result, we are engaging in willful self-deception when the lives of future generations, the world's poor, and even the basic fabric of life on the planet is at stake. We should wake up to this profound ethical failure, Gardiner concludes, and demand more of our institutions, our leaders and ourselves.

This is a radical book, both in the sense that it faces extremes and in the sense that it goes to the roots. --Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

The book's strength lies in Gardiner's success at understanding and clarifying the types of moral issues that climate change raises, which is an important first step toward solutions. --Science Magazine

Gardiner has expertly explored some very instinctual and vitally important considerations which cannot realistically be ignored. --Required reading. --Green Prophet

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