PHIL 1550 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Sebastian Junger, Collective Action, Sea Level Rise
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Stephen m. gardiner (2006): a perfect moral storm: climate change, Interestingly, gardiner deploys concepts and techniques from game theory: what is game theory?", from the stanford encyclopedia of philosophy, Climate change is a perfect moral storm even if the difficult ethical questions could be answered, we might still find it difficult to act. Institutional inadequacy: these factors are spatial in the case of the global storm, and temporal in the, the global storm case of the intergenerational storm, gardiner observes that climate change is a truly global phenomenon . It is collectively rational to cooperate and restrict overall pollution: each agent prefers the outcome produced by everyone restricting their individual pollution over the outcome produced by no one doing so. The source of climate change is located deep in the infrastructure of current human civilisations attempts to combat it may have substantial ramifications for human social life .