Climate Change, Responsibility, and Justice

@article{Jamieson2010ClimateCR,
  title={Climate Change, Responsibility, and Justice},
  author={Dale Jamieson},
  journal={Science and Engineering Ethics},
  year={2010},
  volume={16},
  pages={431-445}
}
  • D. Jamieson
  • Published 2010
  • Philosophy
  • Science and Engineering Ethics
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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