- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Adapting Humanity
- I Adapting Restoration to Climate Change
- 1 Nature Restoration as a Paradigm for the Human Relationship with Nature
- 2 Environmental Virtues and the Aims of Restoration
- 3 Global Warming and Virtues of Ecological Restoration
- 4 History, Novelty, and Virtue in Ecological Restoration
- II Integrating Ecology into the Virtue of Justice
- 5 The Death of Restoration?
- 6 Animal Flourishing and Capabilities in an Era of Global Change
- 7 Environment as Meta-capability: Why a Dignified Human Life Requires a Stable Climate System
- 8 Justice, Ecological Integrity, and Climate Change
- III Adjusting Character to a Changing Environment
- 9 Ethics, Public Policy, and Global Warming
- 10 The Virtue of Responsibility for the Global Climate
- 11 Rethinking Greed
- 12 Are We the Scum of the Earth? Climate Change, Geoengineering, and Humanity’s Challenge
- IV Reorganizing Institutions to Enable Human Virtue
- 13 The Sixth Mass Extinction Is Caused by Us
- 14 Human Values and Institutional Responses to Climate Change
- 15 Alienation and the Commons
- 16 Thinking like a Planet
- About the Contributors
- Index
Are We the Scum of the Earth? Climate Change, Geoengineering, and Humanity’s Challenge
Are We the Scum of the Earth? Climate Change, Geoengineering, and Humanity’s Challenge
- Chapter:
- (p.240) (p.241) 12 Are We the Scum of the Earth? Climate Change, Geoengineering, and Humanity’s Challenge
- Source:
- Ethical Adaptation to Climate Change
- Author(s):
Stephen M. Gardiner
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
The chapter focuses on climate change in general and geoengineering in particular. It explains who we are in the context of ethical complaints about our understanding of global environmental change. The chapter also considers some categories of negative ethical appraisal to which failure makes humanity susceptible, including those involving tarnishing, marring, and blighting evils.
Keywords: climate change, geoengineering, global environment change, tarnishing, marring, blighting evils
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Adapting Humanity
- I Adapting Restoration to Climate Change
- 1 Nature Restoration as a Paradigm for the Human Relationship with Nature
- 2 Environmental Virtues and the Aims of Restoration
- 3 Global Warming and Virtues of Ecological Restoration
- 4 History, Novelty, and Virtue in Ecological Restoration
- II Integrating Ecology into the Virtue of Justice
- 5 The Death of Restoration?
- 6 Animal Flourishing and Capabilities in an Era of Global Change
- 7 Environment as Meta-capability: Why a Dignified Human Life Requires a Stable Climate System
- 8 Justice, Ecological Integrity, and Climate Change
- III Adjusting Character to a Changing Environment
- 9 Ethics, Public Policy, and Global Warming
- 10 The Virtue of Responsibility for the Global Climate
- 11 Rethinking Greed
- 12 Are We the Scum of the Earth? Climate Change, Geoengineering, and Humanity’s Challenge
- IV Reorganizing Institutions to Enable Human Virtue
- 13 The Sixth Mass Extinction Is Caused by Us
- 14 Human Values and Institutional Responses to Climate Change
- 15 Alienation and the Commons
- 16 Thinking like a Planet
- About the Contributors
- Index
