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• Winner of Winner of the American Philosophical Association's 2013 Public Philosophy Op-Ed Contest.

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Author:   Dale Jamieson (Director of Environmental Studies, Center for Bioethics, and the Animal Studies Initiative, New York University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 24.30cm
Weight:   0.508kg
ISBN:  

9780199337668

ISBN 10:   0199337667
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   01 April 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. The Nature of the Problem 2.1 The Development of Climate Science 2.2 Climate Change as a Public Issue 2.3 The Age of Climate Diplomacy 2.4 Concluding Remarks 3. Obstacles to Action 3.1 Scientific Ignorance 3.2 Politicizing Science 3.3 Facts and Values 3.4 The Science/Policy Interface 3.5 Organized Denial 3.6 Partisanship 3.7 Political Institutions 3.8 The Hardest Problem 3.9 Concluding Remarks 4. The Limits of Economics 4.1 Economics and Climate Change 4.2 The Stern Review and Its Critics 4.3 Discounting 4.4 Further Problems 4.5 State of the Discussion 4.6 Concluding Remarks 5. The Frontiers of Ethics 5.1 The Domain of Concern 5.2 Responsibility and Harm 5.3 Fault Liability 5.4 Human Rights and Domination 5.5 Differences That Matter 5.6 Revising Morality 5.7 Concluding Remarks 6. Living With Climate Change 6.1 Life in the Anthropocene 6.2 It Doesn't Matter What I Do 6.3 It's Not the Meat It's the Motion 6.4 Ethics for the Anthropocene 6.5 Respect For Nature 6.6 Global Justice 6.7 Concluding Remarks 7. Politics, Policy, and the Road Ahead 7.1 The Rectification of Names 7.2 Adaptation: The Neglected Option? 7.3 Why Abatement and Mitigation Still Matter 7.4 The Category Formerly Known as Geoengineering 7.5 The Way Forward 7.6 Concluding Remarks

Reviews

An invaluable contribution to the dialogue about how to minimize the inevitable social and environmental devastation that looms large in our future. -- Booklist This book is a must read by all who wish to bring reason to the challenges [of climate change] we are going to face very soon, whether we want to or not... --Green Energy Times Jamieson provides a wide-ranging account, looking at the lack of political incentives to act and at the influence of organised climate denial...Jamieson concludes with some observations about things we can definitely do for the better right away (abandon coal), and with shrewd reflections on living with the knowledge that we flunked the climate test. --Times Higher Education Part requiem for our failed hopes and part vision for our uncertain future, this remarkably far-ranging work by the philosopher who has thought longest and hardest about climate change could inspire fruitfully radical reassessment of our attitudes toward the most far-reaching challenge of our lifetimes. The climate is changing -- can we? --Henry Shue, Centre for International Studies, University of Oxford A highly informative, wise, and thought-provoking discussion of some of the greatest problems that humanity faces, and of some possible solutions. --Derek Parfit, All Souls College, Oxford Dale Jamieson is a philosopher and a realist. He was been working on climate change for a quarter of a century, alongside both scientists and policy makers. He argues that we are heading down a dangerous road and will likely have to face a much more difficult world. But he also argues that there is so much we can do individually and collectively to make a difference, and warns that the best must not be the enemy of the good. This is a very thoughtful and valuable book and should be read by all those who would wish to bring reason to a defining challenge of our century. --Professor Lord Nicholas Stern

Dale Jamieson is a philosopher and a realist . He was been working on climate change for a quarter of a century, alongside both scientists and policy makers. He argues that we are heading down a dangerous road and will likely have to face a much more difficult world. But he also argues that there is so much we can do individually and collectively to make a difference, and warns that the best must not be the enemy of the good. This is a very thoughtful and valuable book and should be read by all those who would wish to bring reason to a defining challenge of our century. - Nicholas Stern, Chair of the Grantham Research Institute, The London School of Economics and Political Science No one but Dale Jamieson could write an eminently readable book about climate change that ranges over the full sweep of the problem from the historical to the ethical, the scientific to the political. By placing this vexing issue into the broader context of the human condition, Jamieson guides the reader's mood from pessimism to optimism, and finally realism about our prospects. --Michael Oppenheimer, Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs, Princeton University

Author Information

Dale Jamieson teaches Environmental Studies, Philosophy, and Law at New York University, and was formerly affiliated with the National Center for Atmospheric Research. He is the author of Ethics and the Environment: An Introduction, and Morality's Progress: Essays on Humans, Other Animals, and the Rest of Nature.

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