PHIL 4 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: National Climate Assessment, Counterintuitive
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Objections to nozick"s entitlement theory: no guaranteed liberty of action: if everything is already owned by others, then a person would be unable to. Ethics and climate change: greenhouse effect, global warming, climate change, prefered term because of the rapid changes to the earth"s climate. The scientific consensus: the fourth national climate assessment provides the most of to date information of climate change, 3 of the last 4 years have the warmest on record. It is extremely likely that this observed change was caused by human activities, especially emissions of greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels: other changes:
