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Auteur(s) : Jamieson, Dale
Titre(s) : Reason in a dark time [Texte imprimé] : why the struggle against climate change failed-- and what it means for our future / Dale Jamieson
Publication : Oxford : Oxford university press, cop. 2014
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XVI-266 p.) : ill. ; 25 cm
Comprend : 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.
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 239-260
From 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
Sujet(s) : Changements climatiques
Éthique de l'environnement
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 0-19-933766-7. - ISBN 978-0-19-933766-8 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb43775125c
Notice n° :
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