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Perfect Moral Storm The Ethical Tragedy of Climate Change

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Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

04.05.2011

Verlag

Oxford University Press

Seitenzahl

508

Maße (L/B/H)

24/16,1/3,2 cm

Gewicht

794 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-19-537944-0

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Gebundene Ausgabe

Erscheinungsdatum

04.05.2011

Verlag

Oxford University Press

Seitenzahl

508

Maße (L/B/H)

24/16,1/3,2 cm

Gewicht

794 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-19-537944-0

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  • Produktbild: Perfect Moral Storm

    • Preface

    • Acknowledgements

    • Introduction: A Global Environmental Tragedy

    • I. Some Assumptions

    • II. Introducing the Perfect Storm Metaphor

    • III. Climate Change

    • IV. The Wider Relevance of the Model

    • V. Outline of the Book

    • Part A: Overview

    • 1.: A Perfect Moral Storm

    • I. Why Ethics?

    • II. The Global Storm

    • III. The Intergenerational Storm

    • IV. The Theoretical Storm

    • V. The Problem of Moral Corruption

    • 2.: A Consumption Tragedy

    • I. What is the Point of Game Theory

    • II. Motivating the Models

    • III. A Green Energy Revolution?

    • IV. Consumption and Happiness

    • Part B: The Global Storm

    • 3.: Somebody Else's Problem

    • I. Past Climate Policy

    • II. Somebody Else's Burden

    • III. Against Optimism

    • IV. Conclusion

    • 4.: In the Shadow of a Common Tragedy

    • I. Climate Prisoners?

    • II. An Evolving Tragedy

    • III. Beyond Pessimism

    • IV. Lingering Tragedy

    • V. Climate Policy in the Shadows

    • VI. Conclusion

    • Part C: The Intergenerational Storm

    • 5.: The Tyranny of the Contemporary

    • I. Problems with 'Generations'

    • II. Intergenerational Buck-Passing

    • III. Intergenerational Buck-Passing vs. The Prisoner's Dilemma

    • IV. The Features of the Pure Intergenerational Problem

    • V. Applications and Complications

    • VI. Mitigating Factors

    • VII. The Non-Identity Problem: A Quick Aside

    • VIII. Against Undermining

    • IX. Conclusion

    • 6.: An Intergenerational Arms Race?

    • I. Abrupt Climate Change

    • II. Three Causes of Political Inertia

    • III. Against Undermining

    • IV. Conclusion

    • Part D: The Theoretical Storm

    • 7.: A Global Test for Political Institutions and Theories

    • I. The Global Test

    • II. Scenarios

    • III. A Conjecture

    • IV. Theoretical Vices

    • V. An Illustration: Utilitarianism

    • VI. Understanding the Complaint

    • VII. Conclusion

    • 8.: Cost-Benefit Analysis

    • I. Cost-Benefit Analysis in Normal Contexts

    • II. CBA for Climate Change

    • III. The Presumption Against Discounting

    • IV. The Basic Economics of the Discount Rate

    • V. Discounting the Rich?

    • VI. Declining Discount Rates

    • VII. Two Objections to "Not Discounting"

    • VIII. The "Devil's in the Details" Argument

    • IX. Conclusions

    • Part E: Moral Corruption

    • 9.: Jane Austen vs. Climate Economics

    • I. Corruption

    • II. The Dubious Dashwoods: Initial Parallels

    • III. The Opening Assault on the Status of the Moral Claim

    • IV. The Assault on Content

    • V. Indirect Attacks

    • VI. The Moral of the Story

    • 10.: Geoengineering in an Atomosphere of Evil

    • I. An Idea that is Changing the World

    • II. The Problem of Political Inertia Revisited

    • III. Two Preliminary Arguments: Cost and "Research First"?

    • IV. Arming the Future

    • V. Arm the Present?

    • VI. Evolving the Shadows

    • VII. Underestimating 'Evil'

    • VIII. An Atmosphere of Evil?

    • IX. "Should We Do It?"

    • Part F: What Now?

    • Conclusion: The Immediate Future

    • Postscript: Some Initial Ethics of the Transition

    • I. Introduction

    • II. The Ethics of Skepticism

    • III. Past Emissions

    • IV. Future Emissions

    • V. Responsibility

    • VI. Ideal Theory

    • VII. Conclusion

    • Appendices


    • I. Hardin's Analysis

    • II. Population as a Tragedy of the Commons

    • III. Total Environmental Impact

    • IV. Conclusion


    • I. What the Scientists Know

    • II. Certainty, Guesswork and the Missing Middle

    • III. Conclusion