Climate Change and Moral Disagreement
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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.
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Table of Contents
Part I: Disagreement and Individual Morality
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Moral Disagreement and Conciliationism Chapter 3: Drivers of Disagreement
Chapter 4: Climate Change, Compromise, and Consensus Chapter 5: Conceptualizing Climate Change
Chapter 6: Distributive Disagreements about Climate Action Chapter 7: Further Moral Issues
Part 2: Disagreement, Acting Together and Public Reason Chapter 8: Public Reason
Chapter 9: Public Reason, Disagreements, and the Role of Science in Climate Change
Chapter 10: Public Reason and Climate Change as a Global Problem
Part 3: Practical Implications Chapter 11: What to Think, how to Act
Chapter 12: Individual Deliberation and Responsibilities Chapter 13: Advice for Decision Makers
Epilogue
Product details
| Published | 01 Oct 2026 |
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| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 306 |
| ISBN | 9781978766075 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 1 b/w |
| Series | Key Issues in Climate Change and Sustainability: Ethics, Politics and Policy |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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