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Debating climate ethics
I IN DEFENSE OF CLIMATE ETHICS
How Will We Be Remembered?
Betraying the Future
INTRODUCTION
ETHICS FIRST
Evaluation
Policy Questions
Ethical Challenge
THE GLOBAL STORM
The Basic Global Storm
Exacerbating Factors
Rejecting the Traditional Model
THE INTERGENERATIONAL STORM
The Basic Intergenerational Storm
Exacerbating Factors
Revisiting the Global Storm
THE ECOLOGICAL STORM
The Basic Ecological Storm
Exacerbating Factors
THE THEORETICAL STORM
MORAL CORRUPTION
Notes
Who Are We and What Do We Want?
“PURE” POLICY
Marginalization by Definition
Segregation
QUASI-SCIENTIFIC IMPERIALISM
Goals
Implementation
FEASIBILITY
SELF-INTEREST
The Nature of the Constraint
Content
A. COLONIZATION PROBLEM
B. CONFLATION PROBLEM
C. ROBUST SELF-INTEREST
Responsibility
INSTITUTIONAL OPTIMISM
Rival Constraints
Invisible Hands
Ethics as Facilitator
WELFARISM
Utilitarianism
Cost-Benefit Analysis
CONCLUSION
Notes
Justice vs. Extortion
GLOBAL EXTORTION
“Polluted Pay”
Presumptions Against “Polluted Pay”
Outsourcing Justice
INTERGENERATIONAL EXTORTION
JUSTICE NOW
The Burden Claim
Objections
A. ACTUAL REDUCTIONS
B. DISAGREEMENT
C. POLITICALLY UNMANAGEABLE TRANSFERS
D. ISOLATIONISM
CORRECTIVE JUSTICE
Three Presumptive Arguments
Excusable Ignorance
“First Come, First Served”
Dead Emitters
Resource Isolationism
TRAJECTORY
Feasibility Revisited
Self-Defense
Basic Physical Structure
Limits
A GLOBAL CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION
Notes
II THE PROBLEMS WITH CLIMATE ETHICS BY DAVID A. WEISBACH
Introduction to Part II
SELF-INTEREST VS. ETHICS
IS ETHICS INEVITABLE?
IS ETHICS THE RIGHT TOOL?
WHAT ROLE FOR ETHICS?
BACKGROUND AND HISTORY
Notes
Climate Policy and Self-Interest
EMISSIONS MUST GO TO ZERO
SOON
WE NEED TO START REDUCING EMISSIONS NOW
Climate Change Is an Energy Problem
Energy Transitions Are Slow
We Have To Start Now
EVERYONE MUST START NOW
UNCERTAINTY STRENGTHENS THESE CONCLUSIONS
BARRIERS
CONCLUSIONS
Notes
The Role of Claims of Justice in Climate Change Policy
DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE
Climate Change Blinders
Feasibility
CORRECTIVE JUSTICE
Climate Change Blinders
Feasibility
EQUAL PER CAPITA EMISSIONS
Climate Change Blinders
Feasibility
CONCLUSIONS
Notes
Summing Up
III RESPONSES
"The Feasible Is Political" Stephen M. Gardiner
DANGEROUSLY UTOPIAN?
OUTLIER
QUESTIONABLE AMBITION?
KYOTO’S FOLLY
EVOLVING TRAGEDY
EXCLUDING JUSTICE
EFFICIENCY BLINDERS
BEARING WITNESS
Notes
We Agree: The Failure of Climate Ethics
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