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Ethical Adaptation to Climate Change Human Virtues of the Future

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ISBN-10: 0262517655

ISBN-13: 9780262517652

Edition: 2012

Authors: Allen Thompson, Jeremy Bendik-Keymer, Ned Hettinger, Ronald Sandler, William Throop

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Predictions about global climate change have produced both stark scenarios of environmental catastrophe and purportedly pragmatic ideas about adaptation. This book takes a different perspective, exploring the idea that the challenge of adapting to global climate change is fundamentally an ethical one, that it is not simply a matter of adapting our infrastructures and economies to mitigate damage but rather of adapting ourselves to realities of a new global climate. The challenge is to restore our conception of humanity--to understand human flourishing in new ways--in an age in which humanity shapes the basic conditions of the global environment. In the face of what we have unintentionally…    
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Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 3/9/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Allen Thompson is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Oregon State University.

Jeremy Bendik-Keymer is Elmer G. Beamer-Hubert H. Schneider Professor in Ethics and Associate Professor of Philosophy at Case Western Reserve University. He is the author of The Ecological Life: Discovering Citizenship and a Sense of Humanity.

Ronald Sandler is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Northeastern University.

Steven Vogel is Professor of Philosophy at Denison University and the author of Against Nature: The Concept of Nature in Critical Theory.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Adapting Humanity
Adapting Restoration to Climate Change
Nature Restoration as a Paradigm for the Human Relationship with Nature
Environmental Virtues and the Aims of Restoration
Global Warming and Virtues of Ecological Restoration
History, Novelty, and Virtue in Ecological Restoration
Integrating Ecology into the Virtue of Justice
The Death of Restoration?
Animal Flourishing and Capabilities in an Era of Global Change
Environment as Meta-capability: Why a Dignified Human Life Requires a Stable Climate System
Justice, Ecological Integrity, and Climate Change
Adjusting Character to a Changing Environment
Ethics, Public Policy, and Global Warming
The Virtue of Responsibility for the Global Climate
Rethinking Greed
Are We the Scum of the Earth? Climate Change, Geoengineering, and Humanity's Challenge
Reorganizing Institutions to Enable Human Virtue
The Sixth Mass Extinction Is Caused by Us
Human Values and Institutional Responses to Climate Change
Alienation and the Commons
Thinking like a Planet
About the Contributors
Index