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Genre/Form: | Electronic books e-books Livres numériques |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Ethics & climate change. Waterloo, Ont. : Published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press for the Calgary Institute for the Humanities, ©1993 (DLC) 93094493 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Harold G Coward; F Kenneth Hare; Thomas Hurka; Calgary Institute for the Humanities. |
ISBN: | 0889202338 9780889202337 0889208549 9780889208544 |
OCLC Number: | 144145110 |
Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 199 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Contents: | Table of Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Preface; Introduction; 1. The Challenge; 2. Ethical Principles; 3. Religious Responsibility; 4. The Arctic-A Canadian Case Study; 5. Personal Responsibility; 6. Corporate Responsibility; 7. International Responsibility; 8. Effective Economic Mechanisms: Efficiency and Ethical Considerations; 9. Energy Efficiency at Home and Abroad; Conclusion; About the Authors; Bibliography; Index. |
Other Titles: | Ethics and climate change Greenhouse effect |
Responsibility: | edited by Harold Coward and Thomas Hurka ; essays by F. Kenneth Hare [and others]. |
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Abstract:
Faced with the prospect of global warming, the anticipated rapid rise in global air temperatures due to the release of gases into the atmosphere, we have two choices of how to respond: adaptation or avoidance. With adaptation we keep burning fossil fuels, let global temperatures rise and make whatever changes this requires: move people from environmentally damaged areas, build sea walls, etc. With avoidance we stop warming from occurring, either by reducing our use of fossil fuels or by using technology such as carbon dioxide recovery after combustion to block the warming effect. Yet each str.
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