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Title: The Ethical Dimensions of Climate Change: Why Does It Matter and What Are The Issues?


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  • The Ethical Dimensions of Climate Change Why
    Does It Matter and What Are The Issues?
  • Donald A. Brown,
  • Associate Professor of Environmental Ethics,
    Science, and Law
  • Penn State University
  • Email dab57_at_psu.edu
  • http//rockethics.psu.edu
  • http//climateethics.org
  • Fordham Law School,
  • April 20, 2010

2
Goals
  • Why is climate change an ethical and moral issue?
  • What is the significance of climate being an
    ethical issue?
  • What are the major ethical issues entailed by
    climate change?

3
Link between science and ethics and morality
  • Climate change is a problem where some people are
    putting others, future generations, and
    ecological systems at risk.
  • Science can tell us who is causing the problem
    and whose, what, when, and where harms will be
    experienced and what are the available solutions.
  • If we get the science wrong about these matters,
    we may get the ethics wrong.

4
Climate Change Ethics
  • Ethics - the domain of inquiry that examines
    statements about what is bad or good, obligatory
    or non-obligatory, or when duties attach to human
    actions
  • Basis for ethical positions
  • Religion
  • Anthropocentric
  • Utilitarian and other consequentiality
  • Relationship based ethics
  • Virtue
  • Rights based or other duty based
  • Distributive and other theories of justice
  • Non-anthropocentric
  • Biocentric
  • Ecocentric

conflict
Remove some proposals
Overlapping Consensus
5
Why Is Climate Change An Ethical Question?
Makes this happen here
This here
Questions of Damage Responsibility
Distributive Justice Welfare Maximization
Procedural Justice Human Rights
6
Why are ethical questions more salient at the
global scale?
The Consequences Are Potentially Catastrophic
7
Global Humanitarian Forum, MAY 2009
  • Climate changer already is killing 300, 000 per
    year
  • Will be responsible for 500,000 deaths per year
    by 2030
  • 4 billion at risk from climate change now and 500
    million at extreme risk now
  • If climate change is not gotten under control
    within 25 years, 250 million will have health
    related problems.

8
Climate Change and Agriculture
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Glacier Dependent Rivers in Asia
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Climate Change And Drought
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Vulnerability to Drought Exposure Sensitivity
Frequency
Mortality
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Some countries are experiencing drought and
desertification.
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Climate Change and Desertification
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