Introduction 1. A Warmer World 2. Right and Wrong 3. Responsibility 4. Doing Nothing 5. Doing Something 6. Individual Choices Epilogue
Climate change is an issue at the heart of international public debate today - this book explores the philosophical implications of and for this hugely topical contemporary debate.
James Garvey is Secretary of the Royal Institute of Philosophy, UK. He is the author of The Twenty Greatest Philosophy Books and The Ethics of Climate Change, also published by Continuum.
"Open this book and James Garvey is right there making real sense
to you. A new philosopher doing logic in the world. In a necessary
conversation, capturing you to the very end." - Ted Honderich,
Grote Professor Emeritus of the Philosophy of Mind & Logic,
University College London, UK.
"Written in plain English, Garvey's excellent book makes accessible
to the reader the ethical issues surrounding global warming, and
the literature too. It should figure on all relevant reading
lists." - Robin Attfield, Professor of Philosophy, Cardiff
University, UK
"The Ethics of Climate Change is a model of philosophical reasoning
about one of the greatest moral challenges any generation has ever
faced. If you don't yet know why you should be morally outraged
about the present situation, read this book. Calmly, carefully,
with well-marshalled facts and sound argument, Garvey shows us just
how badly the nations of the industrialized world - and the
citizens of those nations - are behaving. He also tells us what we
need to do about it." - Peter Singer, Ira W. DeCamp
Professor of Bioethics, University Center for Human Values,
Princeton University and Laureate Professor, University of
Melbourne, Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics.
"Essential reading for anyone interested in the urgent moral
questions raised by our climate crisis." - Mark Lynas, Author of
Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet
"It's an excellent book to think with: Garvey has a delicious
style, often very funny, and a trick of ushering the reader right
inside his thought experiments." - Stephen Poole, The Guardian
"[With this book] you don't get the feeling of being hectored by a
preachy green, but rather of being addressesd like the intelligent
adult that you are...Witty without being frivolous, explanatory but
never condescending, engaging and challenging in equal measure,
this book should become a campus classic." - Jonathan Webber, The
Philosophers' Magazine
"In this outstanding book, Garvey (Royal Institute of Philosophy,
UK) takes a position on global warming that is fair-minded and
supported by compelling reasons. In the first chapter he argues
that global warming is occurring, that human activities have
contributed significantly to this process, that it will have
detrimental effects on people, and that the evidence for all this
is largely beyond question within the scientific community. The
remainder of the book makes a case for the claim that both
individuals and nations, particularly economically privileged ones,
have a moral obligation to ameliorate this situation. Garvey offers
an excellent discussion of general moral issues such as
responsibility, justice, and choice and their relation to global
warming. He also presents a forceful rebuttal of the views that
ethics is irrelevant and "merely" subjective. The concluding
chapters propose concrete practices and policies that are morally
required in response to global warming. Garvey's arguments are
clear and unencumbered with jargon...this book will be extremely
helpful to anyone who wants a lively introduction to this topic.
Summing Up: Highly Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates through
faculty/researchers; general readers." -M.A. Michael, CHOICE,
November 2008
"Garvey's book explores the philosophical implications of, and for,
this issue." Mentioned in Times Higher Educational Supplement, 24
January 2008
'When I canvassed my carbon-management masters students on their
favourite climate change books ... plaudits came in for ... James
Garvey's Ethics of Climate Change ... [one of a few] recently
published, well-written books that increase understanding and
provoke debate' - Nature
'This book offers an excellent and "capturing" (Honderich)
introduction to the ethics of climate change.' - Ethical
Perspectives
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