PHIL 2750 Lecture 17: Lecture 17
1 Aug 2018
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A perfect moral storm: climate change, intergeneraional ethics and the. A perfect moral storm: convergence of independently harmful factors which result in a negaive outcomes. The nature of the problem of climate change makes it very diicult to solve even if we can ind ethical soluions, it may be diicult to act. Climate change makes us vulnerable to moral corrupion . Corrupion: decepion, secrecy, potenial harm to others, to your own beneit (usually $) Moral corrupion: we deceive ourselves, we are hypocrites, and we would inlict harm to others to our own beneit in moral maters. Climate change makes us more suscepible to be morally corrupt. Wider context of interacion: enforceable system of sancions can make what is collecively raional individually raional. Gardiner thinks that this problem will not go away, but there are ways to make it beter. Climate change makes what we have now, worse. Looking at three facts (agency, insituions, causes) from a temporal perspecive.
