Reason in a dark time [elektronische middelen] : why the struggle against climate change failed-- and what it means for our future / Dale Jamieson.
By: Jamieson, Dale.
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2014Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 266 pages . :) : illustrations.Content type: Media type: Carrier type: ISBN: 9780199337668.Subject(s): Environmental sciences | Environmental ethics | Human ecology | Climatic changesGenre/Form: Print books.DDC classification: 363.738/74 | 363.738/74Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-260) and index.
1. Introduction. -- 2. The nature of the problem. The development of climate science ; Climate change as public issue ; The age of climate diplomacy ; Concluding remarks -- 3. Obstacles to action. Scientific ignorance ; Politicizing science ; Facts and values ; The science/policy interface ; Organized denial ; Partisanship ; Political institutions ; The hardest problem ; Concluding remarks -- 4. The limits of economics. Economics and climate change ; The Stern Review and its critics ; Discounting ; Further problems ; State of the discussion ; Concluding remarks -- 5. The frontiers of ethics. The domain of concern ; Responsibility and harm ; Fault liability ; Human rights and domination ; Differences that matter ; Revising morality ; Concluding remarks -- 6. 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 ; Concluding remarks -- 7. 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 ; Concluding remarks.
From the 1992 Rio Earth Summit to the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Conference there was a concerted international effort to stop climate change. This book is about what climate change is, why we failed to stop it, and why it still matters what we do.