BOOKS:
A PERFECT MORAL STORM - THE ETHICAL TRAGEDY OF CLIMATE CHANGE (2011)
Professor Stephen Gardiner attended the Cambridge Global Conversations (CGC) Climate Ethics Event (that was supported by the WEL FOUNDATION) in July 2019. Professor Gardiner is responsible for the “Perfect Moral Storm” framework for climate ethics. This framework identifies four “Moral Storms” that are affecting humanity and threatening our ability to behave ethically. The first three, identified in this book, are:
The Global Storm
The Intergenerational Storm
The Theoretical Storm
Professor Gardiner added a fourth storm, “The Ecological Storm”, to the framework after the 2011 Publication of this book. Professor Gardiner also writes about the ethical dangers inherent in any attempts at large scale Geoengineering to tackle the climate crisis.
Watch Professor Gardiner Explain some of his ideas ==>
Professor Stephen Gardiner gives his thoughts on Ethics, Climate Ethics, Climate Justice, Geoengineering and more; filmed at the CGC#1:Climate Ethics event supported by the WEL Foundation in July 2019.
Prof. Gardiner’s newest book “The Ethics of "Geoengineering" the Global Climate: Justice, Legitimacy and Governance” is out July 2020.
CLIMATE MATTERS - ETHICS IN A WARMING WORLD (2012)
Part of the Amnesty International Global Ethics Series, John Broome’s book was published in 2012. Although the climate “world” moves quickly, many of the questions and issues raised here remain relevant to this day.
Now retired, Professor Broome’s economics background shines through in his interesting and challenging book on some of the ethical issues around the climate crisis. Broome considers the inherent moral assumptions in economists’ use of the discount rate in calculating climate costs and benefits, and suggests a highly pragmatic intergenerational (and perhaps controversial?) approach to the issue of compensating polluters in order to achieve necessary and meaningful climate action.
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