Climate Change, Ethics and Human Security

Climate Change, Ethics and Human Security - edited by Karen O'Brien July
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Proposes a value-based approach to providing solutions to the problem of climate change Encourages readers to widen their perspectives on climate change beyond biophysical and economic arguments and to view future scenarios as opportunities for transformative change Introduces geoscientists to state-of-the-art perspectives on the ethics of climate change Challenges social scientists to integrate their perspectives into the science of global change.

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Applied geoscience, petroleum and mining geoscience Atmospheric science and meteorology Climatology and climate change Earth science: National Institute Economic Review , 1 , 4—7. A social discount rate for climate damage to future generations based on regulatory law. Environmental Policies and Future Generations. The Rights of Future People. Journal of Applied Philosophy , 6 2 , — The rights of animals and unborn generations. In Rights, Justice, and the Bounds of Liberty: Essays in Social Philosophy.

Princeton University Press, — Measuring intergenerational time preference: Journal of Risk and Uncertainty , 26 1 , 39— Environmental and Resource Economics , 32 4 , — Relationship between increases in global mean temperature and impacts on ecosystems, food production, water and socio-economic systems. In Schellnhuber , H.

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Climate change and human health: Risk Analysis , 25 6 , — Anomalies in intertemporal choice: In Kahneman , D. Journal of Economic Perspectives , 3 4 , — Measuring the Real State of the World. Climate Change and Human Health: In Ezzati , M. World Health Organization, pp. A Critique of the Stern Report.

Regulation 29 4 , 42—6. In Meyer , L. The human right to a safe environment: Yale Journal of International Law , 18 1 , — Discounting in economics and climate change. Climatic Change , 37 2 , — A review of the Stern review on the economics of climate change.

Journal of Economic Literature , 45 3 , — Economic Models of Global Warming. Climate Change, Justice and Future Generations. The potential health impacts of climate variability and change for the United States: Environmental Health Perspectives , 4 , — World Economics , 4 2 , — The main IPCC creed alleges that CO2 levels have risen, it is a greenhouse gas and is thus threatening runaway global warming. The earth has been cooling in the last decade, not warming, and none of the dire warnings of the IPCC have occurred.

The massive floods seen recently in Japan and Indonesia were caused by tsunamis and CO2 gas levels are quite irrelevant to the disasters. The activities of scientists who support the IPCC were recently exposed by the Climategate emails, about which there is no mention at all in the book, a strange omission by ethicists. They proceed to pontificate on solutions to our alleged doom-laden future, such as the carbon taxes now adopted by the EU and a few other nations, despite the substantial opposition to this unfair tax from other key nations.

They include China, India and the USA, the former being developing countries which have grown spectacularly thanks to cheap electricity from coal burning. China and India are solving the much more important problem of poverty, not with the help of rich countries like Norway, but through their own efforts. Norway, where these authors originate, is one of the richest countries on the planet mainly thanks to its oil production and reserves and it is an irony that they are such fanatical supporters of imposing such iniquitous taxes on the poorest nations of the planet.

But those taxes are now hitting the EU itself, which is currently in a severe crisis through bank and currency failures. The carbon taxes imposed by the EC are having a disastrous effect on the industries of the EU which are supposed to be helping us out of recession. It is thus no wonder that all international efforts to impose these taxes have come to nothing, and there is no chance of worldwide carbon taxes at anytime in the future.

I would suggest that these worthy ethicists divert their attention to real ethical problems, such as war and terrorism, torture and business malpractice especially in the banks. They might also examine noble cause corruption, which they themselves practise in this book. One person found this helpful. The sad tale here is that the sheer price of this tome pretty much ensures that it will be read by no one except a few unlucky grad students who are forced to buy it as a text. Take a lesson from Hawking: I want to delete my review since I haven't read the book.

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