World Ethics and Climate Change: From International to Global Justice
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Global warming and climate change present profound challenges, with scientific predictions of devastating impact in the coming decades, yet rich countries are doing little to address the problem and developing countries are becoming the largest source of the problem. Grounded in practical cosmopolitan ethics, this book presents a serious and workable solution to climate change. It particularly addresses the role of individuals, proposing a new way of approaching the global politics of climate change and recommending more explicit involvement of people by incorporating practical cosmopolitan ethics (which focus on the rights and obligations of individuals) into international environmental diplomacy.Paul G. Harris argues that people in developing countries should join in efforts to limit greenhouse gas pollution, and that this would lead the governments of rich countries, and in turn their citizens, to cut their future pollution, live up to their responsibilities in regards to historical pollution, and aid those who will suffer the most from climate change.
Preface viiIntroduction 1Part 1 the Challenge1 Global Climate Change 172 Justice in a Changing world 29Part II International Justice3 International Environmental Justice 534 International Justice and climate change 74Part III Global Justice5 Cosmopolitan Ethics and Justice 996 Affluence, Consumption and Atmospheric Pollution 1217 Cosmopolitan Diplomacy and Climate Policy 1568 the Unavoidability of Global Justice 182Reference 195Index 210
