Reason in a dark time : why the struggle against climate change failed--and what it means for our future / Dale Jamieson.
Jamieson, Dale.
2014
GE40 .J36 2014 (Mapit)
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Title Reason in a dark time : why the struggle against climate change failed--and what it means for our future / Dale Jamieson.
Author Jamieson, Dale.
ISBN 9780199337668 hardcover alkaline paper
0199337667 hardcover alkaline paper
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]
Language English
Description xvi, 266 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Call Number GE40 .J36 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification 363.738/74
Summary rom the 1992 Rio Earth Summit to the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Conference there was a concerted international effort to stop climate change. Yet greenhouse gas emissions increased, atmospheric concentrations grew, and global warming became an observable fact of life. In this book, the author explains that climate change is, why we have failed to stop it, and why it still matters what we do. Centered in philosophy, the volume also treats the scientific, historical, economic, and political dimensions of climate change. Our failure to prevent or even to respond significantly to climate change, the author argues, reflects the impoverishment of our systems of practical reason, the paralysis of our politics, and the limits of our cognitive and affective capacities. The climate change that is underway is remaking the world in such a way that familiar comforts, places, and ways of life will disappear in years or decades rather than centuries. Climate change also threatens our sense of meaning, since it is difficult to believe that our individual actions matter. The challenges that climate change presents go beyond the resources of common sense morality; it can be hard to view such everyday acts as driving and flying as presenting moral problems. Yet there is much that we can do to slow climate change, to adapt to it and restore a sense of agency while living meaningful lives in a changing world. -- From publisher's website.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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The Nature of the Problem. The development of climate science ; Climate change as public issue ; The age of climate diplomacy.
Obstacles to Action. Scientific ignorance ; Politicizing science ; Facts and values ; The science/policy interface ; Organized denial ; Partisanship ; Political institutions ; The hardest problem.
The Limits of Economics. Economics and climate change ; The Stern Review and its critics ; Discounting ; Further problems ; State of the discussion.
The Frontiers of Ethics. The domain of concern ; Responsibility and harm ; Fault liability ; Human rights and domination ; Differences that matter ; Revising morality.
Living With Climate Change. Life in the anthropocene ; It doesn't matter what I do ; It's not the meat, it's the motion ; Ethics for the anthropocene ; Respect for nature ; Global justice.
Politics, Policy, and the Road Ahead. The rectification of names ; Adaptation: the neglected option? ; Why we need more than adaptation ; The category formerly known as geoengineering ; The way forward.

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