- 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
The Sixth Mass Extinction Is Caused by Us
The Sixth Mass Extinction Is Caused by Us
- Chapter:
- (p.263) 13 The Sixth Mass Extinction Is Caused by Us
- Source:
- Ethical Adaptation to Climate Change
- Author(s):
Jeremy Bendik-Keymer
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
Climate change is a main driver of extinction, with climate-related species loss of 20 percent and upward estimated under current global warming forecasts for this century. This chapter explains what the sixth mass extinction is and why it is caused by humankind. It also examines what our massive extinction of Earth life shows us about the limits of virtue.
Keywords: climate change, extinction, global warming, sixth mass extinction, virtue
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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
