PHIL448 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Ecosystem Services, Collective Responsibility, Ultraviolet
22 Dec 2016
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The ethics of climate change: pay now or pay later by john broome. Should do cause harm for our own benefit this is the dilemma with greenhouse gas emissions. Key concepts: future generations will suffer most of the harmful effects of global climate change. Our choices can affect who exists in the future. Historical roots of our ecologic crisis by: l. white. History of ecologic change is still so rudimentary that we know little about what really happened, or what the results were. 1) all forms of life modify their contexts naturalness of change. 2) epistemology of change what would be there had we not acted. 6) christianity - lays the blame for ecological problems: voluntarism human beings through acts of free will can change the course of their lives/the world. 7) ideologies: transcendence and mastery of nature. 8) animism souls that human beings have also exists in inanimate objects.
