Chapter 8: Global Welfare, Global Justice, and Climate Change

2010 ◽  
pp. 169-188
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Justice ◽  
Global Welfare

Climate Ethics

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen M. Gardiner ◽  
Simon Caney ◽  
Dale Jamieson ◽  
Henry Shue
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Justice ◽  
Environmental Science ◽  
Human Dimensions ◽  
Individual Responsibility ◽  
General Reference ◽  
Science And Policy ◽  
Climate Ethics ◽  
Climate Economics ◽  
Intergenerational Ethics

This collection gathers a set of seminal papers from the emerging area of ethics and climate change. Topics covered include human rights, international justice, intergenerational ethics, individual responsibility, climate economics, and the ethics of geoengineering. Climate Ethics is intended to serve as a source book for general reference, and for university courses that include a focus on the human dimensions of climate change. It should be of broad interest to all those concerned with global justice, environmental science and policy, and the future of humanity.

Climate Change and Global Justice

2011 ◽  
pp. 251-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janine Bentz-Hölzl ◽  
Manfred Brocker
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Justice

scholarly journals Climate Change, Environmental Security and Global Justice

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 119
Author(s):  
Solomon E. Salako
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
International Law ◽  
Global Justice ◽  
Storm Surges ◽  
Environmental Security ◽  
Small Island ◽  
Atmospheric Concentration ◽  
International Consensus ◽  
Sea Levels ◽  
Security Issues

There is an international consensus that climate change is caused by human activities which substantially increase the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases.The ill-effects of climate change are droughts which adversely affect the global poor who are engaged in agriculture; storm surges which destroy local infrastructure, housing and crops; and the rise of sea levels which adversely affect the inhabitants of small island states which could eventually be totally submerged. Military strategists and intelligence analysts are preparing for future conflicts likely to be caused by environmental security issues.The objects of this article are: (i) to evaluate the ill-effects of climate change as a matter of global justice, (ii) to consider whether future generations have the right not to suffer from the ill-effects of climate change, and if so, (iii) to evaluate the relevant conceptions of global justice, and (iv) to assess critically whether international law provides effective preventive responses to climate change and environmental security threats.Finally, a monist-naturalist conception of global justice privileging human dignity as one of its guiding principles is proffered as a solution to the problems raised by the mechanisms of dealing with the ill-effects of climate change and the attendant environmental security issues under international law.

scholarly journals Responsibility and Climate-induced Displacement

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-80
Author(s):  
Jamie Draper
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Justice ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

This paper addresses the phenomenon of climate-induced displacement. I argue that there is scope for an account of asylum as compensation owed to those displaced by the impacts of climate change which needs only to appeal to minimal normative commitments about the requirements of global justice. I demonstrate the possibility of such an approach through an examination of the work of David Miller. Miller is taken as an exemplar of a broadly ‘international libertarian’ approach to global justice, and his work is a useful vehicle for this project because he has an established view about both responsibility for climate change and about the state’s right to exclude would-be immigrants. In the course of the argument, I set out the relevant aspects of Miller’s views, reconstruct an account of responsibility for the harms faced by climate migrants which is consistent with Miller’s views, and demonstrate why such an account yields an obligation to provide asylum as a form of compensation to ‘climate migrants.’

Climate Change, Global Justice, and Health Inequities

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-56
Author(s):  
Sharon Friel
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Justice ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Environmental Epidemiology ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Health Inequities ◽  
Sea Levels ◽  
Vector Borne Diseases ◽  
Rising Sea Levels

This chapter explains the role of human activities in driving climate change, and some of its most significant impacts. It discusses justice issues raised by climate change, including causal responsibility, future development rights, the distribution of climate change harms, and intergenerational inequity. The chapter also provides a status update on current health inequities, noting the now recognized role of political, economic, commercial, and social factors in determining health. This section also discusses environmental epidemiology and the shift to eco-social approaches and eco-epidemiology, noting that while eco-epidemiologists have begun to research the influence of climate change on health, this research has not yet considered in depth the influence of social systems. The chapter concludes with an overview of how climate change exacerbates existing health inequities, focusing on the health implications of significant climate change impacts, including extreme weather events, rising sea levels, heat stress, vector-borne diseases, and food insecurity.

The Struggle for Compassion and Justice through Critical Animal Studies

2015 ◽  
pp. 188-207
Author(s):  
Carol Gigliotti
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Justice ◽  
Animal Studies ◽  
Frankfurt School ◽  
Environmental Damage ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Critical Animal Studies ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Human Animal

Critical animal studies (CAS) is a critical approach to human-animal relationships and explicitly committed to a global justice for animals, humans, and the earth. This essay argues that the global animal industrial complex, as well as the increasing global cultural push to eat meat, are inordinately causing calamitous current conditions of human-caused climate change and species extinction, as well as increasing poverty, hunger, disease, environmental damage and unprecedented animal misery and slaughter. Influenced by critical theory from the Frankfurt School and feminism, among other sources, CAS specifically critiques capitalism and globalization in its role in the domination of people, animals and the earth, but also sees the intersections of all oppression anywhere and for whatever reason as motivation for employing the powerful forces of compassion and social justice.

Wicked Solutions to Wicked Problems? A Christian Ethical Reflection on Synthetic Biology as Nature Conservation

2020 ◽  
Vol 85 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-197
Author(s):  
Manitza Kotzé
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Nature Conservation ◽  
Synthetic Biology ◽  
Global Justice ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Wicked Problems ◽  
Christian Ethics ◽  
Wicked Problem ◽  
Ethical Reflection

Abstract While a distinction should be made between wicked problems as first defined by Churchman (1967) and Rittel and Webber (1973) and problems that are merely challenging and difficult to solve, in this contribution, I argue that climate change and the resulting destruction of nature could be explained as a wicked problem. One of the proposed solutions to climate change, making use of synthetic biology for nature conservation, has the potential to be classified not only as a wicked solution but as a solution that spawns a number of other wicked problems. I will examine the ethical issues raised by synthetic biology as a wicked solution to this super wicked problem from the perspective of Christian ethics, drawing in particular on the resources available in Christian ecotheology and, specifically, notions of interdependence, relationality, responsible stewardship, and global justice.

scholarly journals Dette nummers samlede anmeldelser

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanne Petersen ◽  
Anders Blok ◽  
Inge Röpke
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Food Insecurity ◽  
Political Ecology ◽  
Global Justice ◽  
Peak Oil ◽  
Indiana University

I dette nummer er følgnde bøger blevet anmeldt:Vandana Shiva: Soil not Oil. Climate Change, Peak Oil and Food Insecurity. Zed Books, London, 2008.Stacy Alaimo and Susan Hekman (eds.): Material Feminisms. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN, 2008.Ariel Salleh (Ed.): Eco-Sufficiency and Global Justice. Women write political ecology. Pluto Press and Pinifex Press, 2009.

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