Reason in a dark time : why the struggle against climate change failed and what it means for our future / Dale Jamieson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jamieson, Dale, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental sciences.

Environmental ethics.

Human ecology.

Social ecology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 266 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

Why the struggle against climate change failed and what it means for our future

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

From the 1992 Rio Earth Summit to the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Conference there was a concerted international effort to stop climate change. This book is about what climate change is, why we failed to stop it, and why it still matters what we do.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on February 28, 2014).

ISBN:

0-19-933768-3