Reason in a dark time : why the struggle against climate change failed and what it means for our future /
From the 1992 Rio Earth Summit to the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Conference there was a concerted international effort to stop climate change. Yet greenhouse gas emissions increased, atmospheric concentrations grew, and global warming became an observable fact of life. In this book, the author explains...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2014]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- The nature of the problem : The development of climate science ; Climate change as a public issue ; The age of climate diplomacy
- Obstacles to action : Scientific ignorance ; Politicizing science ; Facts and values ; The science/policy interface ; Organized denial ; Partisanship ; Political institutions ; The hardest problem
- The limits of economics : Economics and climate change ; The Stern Review and its critics ; Discounting ; Further problems ; State of the discussion
- The frontiers of ethics : The domain of concern ; Responsibility and harm ; Fault liability ; Human rights and domination ; Differences that matter ; Revising morality
- Living with climate change : Life in the anthropocene ; It doesn't matter what I do ; It's not the meat, it's the motion ; Ethics for the anthropocene ; Respect for nature ; Global justice
- Politics, policy, and the road ahead : The rectification of names ; Adaptation: the neglected option? ; Why we need more than adaptation ; The category formerly known as geoengineering ; The way forward.