Moral Disagreement and Climate Change

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Moral Disagreement and Climate Change addresses the following problem: Assume, first, that our excessive production of Greenhouse Gases contributes significantly to what may be very serious detrimental effects on our climate and hence our welfare. Solving this issue will inevitably be costly. Assume, furthermore, that we disagree reasonably about how to distribute costs, and how to conceive of the moral problem of climate change to begin with. How can we make progress in the light of this reasonable disagreement? The author argues that we can learn from two related but distinct schools of thought in contemporary philosophy: the idea of conciliationism (when a peer that is equal to you in terms of knowledge about some domain disagrees, you have reason to find compromises) and the idea of public reason (only policies or rules that are, at some level of idealization, acceptable to all can be justified.) Via these two ideas, the author analyzes various important aspects of climate change and suggests that we can find ways to address the issue that are indeed justifiable to all. Disagreement does not mean paralysis.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-10-29
Mått:152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Key Issues in Climate Change and Sustainability: Ethics, Politics and Policy
Antal sidor:320
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781666975925

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Miljövetenskap och miljöpolitik inom Naturvetenskap och teknik

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Morten Ebbe Juul Nielsen is associate professor at the section of philosophy at Copenhagen University.

Recensioner i media

It’s one thing being aware that there may be ethical issues and moral disagreements over how the climate crisis is—or should be—handled. It’s yet another to know the real nuts, bolts, and philosophical underpinnings of these moral arguments and how they feed into public reasoning on this existential issue. With Moral Disagreement and Climate Change, Morten Ebbe Juul Nielsen is doing us all a grand intellectual favor by providing this very thorough roadmap for philosophically informed deliberation, decision, and action on climate change. This is a must-read!

Innehållsförteckning

PrefacePart I: Disagreement and Individual MoralityChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Moral Disagreement and Conciliationism Chapter 3: Drivers of DisagreementChapter 4: Climate Change, Compromise, and Consensus Chapter 5: Conceptualizing Climate ChangeChapter 6: Distributive Disagreements about Climate Action Chapter 7: Further Moral IssuesPart 2: Disagreement, Acting Together and Public Reason Chapter 8: Public ReasonChapter 9: Public Reason, Disagreements, and the Role of Science in Climate ChangeChapter 10: Public Reason and Climate Change as a Global ProblemPart 3: Practical Implications Chapter 11: What to Think, how to ActChapter 12: Individual Deliberation and Responsibilities Chapter 13: Advice for Decision MakersEpilogue