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Philosophical Foundations Of Climate Change Policy by Joseph Heath, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

From Joseph Heath

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Philosophical Foundations Of Climate Change Policy by Joseph Heath, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters
Philosophical Foundations Of Climate Change Policy by Joseph Heath, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

Indigo

Philosophical Foundations Of Climate Change Policy by Joseph Heath, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

From Joseph Heath

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There is widespread agreement that something must be done to combat anthropogenic climate change. And yet what is the extent of our obligations? It would clearly be unjust for us to allow global warming to reach dangerous levels. But what is the nature of this injustice? Providing a plausiblephilosophical specification of the wrongness of our present inaction has proven surprisingly difficult. Much of this is due to the temporal structure of the problem, or the fact that there is such a significant delay between our actions and the effects that they produce. Many normative theories thatsound plausible when applied to contemporaneous problems generate surprising or perverse results when applied to problems that extend over long periods of time, involving effects on individuals who have not yet been born. So while states have a range of sensible climate change policies at theirdisposal, the philosophical foundations of these policies remains indeterminate. By far the most influential philosophical position has been the variant of utilitarianism most popular among economists, which maintains that we have an obligation to maximize the well-being of all people, from now until the end of time. Climate change represents an obvious failure of maximization. Many environmental philosophers, however, find this argument unpersuasive, because it also implies that we have an obligation to maximize economic growth. Yet their attempts to provide alternative foundations for policy have proven unpersuasive. Joseph Heath presents an approach to thinking aboutclimate change policy grounded in social contract theory, which focuses on the fairness of existing institutions, not the welfare of future generations, in order to generate a set of plausible policy prescriptions. | Philosophical Foundations Of Climate Change Policy by Joseph Heath, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

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