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A perfect moral storm : the ethical tragedy of climate change / Stephen M. Gardiner.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2013Description: xvii, 495 s. illISBN:
  • 9780199985142
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 170 23
  • 179.1 23/swe
Other classification:
  • Dg
Contents:
Introduction : the global environmental tragedy -- A perfect moral storm -- The consumption tragedy -- Somebody else's problem? -- A shadowy and evolving tragedy -- The tyranny of the contemporary -- An intergenerational arms race? -- A global test for contemporary political institutions and theories -- Cost-benefit paralysis -- Jane Austen vs. climate economics -- Geoengineering in an atmosphere of evil -- Some initial ethics for the transition -- The immediate future -- Appendix 1 : the population tragedy -- Appendix 2 : epistemic corruption and scientific uncertainty in Michael Crichton's State of fear

"With a new afterword"

Introduction : the global environmental tragedy -- A perfect moral storm -- The consumption tragedy -- Somebody else's problem? -- A shadowy and evolving tragedy -- The tyranny of the contemporary -- An intergenerational arms race? -- A global test for contemporary political institutions and theories -- Cost-benefit paralysis -- Jane Austen vs. climate economics -- Geoengineering in an atmosphere of evil -- Some initial ethics for the transition -- The immediate future -- Appendix 1 : the population tragedy -- Appendix 2 : epistemic corruption and scientific uncertainty in Michael Crichton's State of fear

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