Climate Change Ethics for an Endangered World (Routledge Focus on Environment and Sustainability)

By: Thom Brooks

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Synopsis: Climate change confronts us with our most pressing challenges today. The global consensus is clear that human activity is mostly to blame for its harmful effects, but there is disagreement about what should be done. While no shortage of proposals from ecological footprints and the polluter pays principle to adaptation technology and economic reforms, each offers a solution – but is climate change a problem we can solve?　 In this provocative new book, these popular proposals for ending or overcoming the threat of climate change are shown to offer no easy escape and each rest on an important mistake. Thom Brooks argues that a future environmental catastrophe is an event we can only delay or endure, but not avoid. This raises new ethical questions about how we should think about climate change. How should we reconceive sustainability without a status quo? Why is action more urgent and necessary than previously thought? What can we do to motivate and inspire hope? Many have misunderstood the kind of problem that climate change presents – as well as the daunting challenges we must face and overcome. Climate Change Ethics for an Endangered World is a critical guide on how we can better understand the fragile world around us before it is too late. This innovative book will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate change, climate justice, environmental policy and environmental ethics.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 104 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781000223026
Related ISBNs:: 9781003057956, 9780367524319, 9780367622855
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 10/26/20
Copyrighted By:: Thom Brooks. The right of Thom Brooks to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with sections
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Outdoors and Nature, Earth Sciences, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Philosophy, Politics and Government
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Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.