Guides: PHL 366: Environmental Philosophy: Climate Change

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A Moral Climate : the ethics of global warming by Michael S. Northcott
Despite clarion calls from scientists and cover stories on magazines like Time telling uss to "Be afraid!" Be very afraid!" the threat of an ecological crisis has failed to achieve prominence in religious or political circles. And yet it is one of the biggest moral dilemmas of our time. In this groundbreaking book Michael Northcott examines theological attitudes to climate change, from the complacent to the apocalyptic, and the ethical implications for all Christians. Hard-hitting and comprehensive,
Debating Climate Ethics by Stephen M. Gardiner
Stephen M. Gardiner and David A. Weisbach present arguments for and against the relevance of ethics to global climate policy. Gardiner argues that climate change is fundamentally an ethical issue, since it is an early instance of a distinctive challenge to ethical action and ethical concerns (such as with justice, rights, political legitimacy, community and humanity's relationship to nature) are at the heart of many of the decisions that need to be made. By contrast, Weisbach argues that existing ethical theories are not well suited to addressing climate change.
The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society by John S. Dryzek (Editor)
This volume is a definitive collection of the best thinking on questions of how climate change affects human systems, and how societies can, do, and should respond.

Climate Ethics : essential readings by Stephen Gardiner (Editor)
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.
Ethical Adaptation to Climate Change by Allen Thompson (Editor)
An analytically precise and theoretically probing exploration of the challenge to our values and virtues posed by climate change.
World Ethics and Climate Change : from international to global justice by Paul G. Harris
Global Ethics and Climate Changecombines 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.
Ethics and Climate Change by Harold Coward (Editor)
Written by a team of scientists, social scientists, humanists, legal and environmental scholars and corporate researchers, this book offers an ethical analysis of possible responses to the climate change problem. Their analyses of the scientific and technological data and the ethical principles involved in determining whose interests should be considered point to a combination of adaptation and avoidance of greenhouse gas production.
Climate Change and Philosophy by Ruth Irwin
The book proposes a way of beginning the important task of rethinking the relationship between humanity and the natural environment. Through enquiry into the basic philosophical principles that inform modern society, each author asserts that reflection informs change and that change is both required and possible in the context of the environmental crisis facing us today.