Ethical choices and global greenhouse warming / Lydia Dotto.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dotto, Lydia.

Contributor:

Calgary Institute for the Humanities.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Global warming--Decision making--Moral and ethical aspects.

Global warming.

Greenhouse effect, Atmospheric--Decision making--Moral and ethical aspects.

Greenhouse effect, Atmospheric.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (91 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ont. : Published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press for the Calgary Institute for the Humanities, c1993.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

There are many things we can choose to do about climate change, including doing nothing at all. All of them have consequences, many of which will be unforeseen. If we could foretell more accurately what would happen to the climate in the future, our choices might be clearer, if not necessarily easier to make. Unfortunately, predicting future climate change is fraught with uncertainty, and we will be forced to make choices in the face of that uncertainty. To what extent are we motivated in this difficult process by a desire to do the ""right thing""? And how do we decide what is the right t

Contents:

Table of Contents; Acknowledgement; Author's Note; Summary of Findings and Conclusions; An Overview; SECTION 1 ETHICS AND CLIMATE CHANGE; SECTION 2 ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITIES; SECTION 3 MEETING THE CHALLENGE OF CLIMATE CHANGE; Conclusion; Reading List; Index

Notes:

Based on the study: Ethics and climate change : the greenhouse effect.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Contains:

Ethics and climate change : the greenhouse effect.

ISBN:

9781554586714

1554586712

9780889208308

0889208301

OCLC:

243587611