Climate Change, Responsibility, and Justice
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In this paper I make the following claims. In order to see anthropogenic climate change as clearly involving moral wrongs and global injustices, we will have to revise some central concepts in these domains. Moreover, climate change threatens another value ("respect for nature") that cannot easily be taken up by concerns of global justice or moral responsibility.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Science and engineering ethics
دوره 16 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2010