The Pivotal Generation (eBook)

Why We Have a Moral Responsibility to Slow Climate Change Right Now

Henry Shue (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
208 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-22625-5 (ISBN)

Infos

An eminent philosopher explains why we owe it to future generations to take immediate action on global warmingClimate change is the supreme challenge of our time. Yet despite growing international recognition of the unfolding catastrophe, global carbon emissions continue to rise, hitting an all-time high in 2019. Unless humanity rapidly transitions to renewable energy, it may be too late to stop irreversible ecological damage. In The Pivotal Generation, renowned political philosopher Henry Shue makes an impassioned case for taking immediate, radical action to combat global warming.Shue grounds his argument in a rigorous philosophical analysis of climate change's moral implications. Unlike previous generations, which didn't fully understand the danger of burning carbon, we have the knowledge to comprehend and control rising carbon dioxide levels. And unlike future generations, we still have time to mitigate the worst effects of global warming. This generation has the power, and thus the responsibility, to save the planet. Shirking that responsibility only leaves the next generation with an even heavier burden-one they may find impossible to bear.Written in direct, accessible language, The Pivotal Generation approaches the latest scientific research with a singular moral clarity. It's an urgently needed call to action for anyone concerned about the planet's future.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.1.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Schlagworte: acid rain • Alternative Energy • American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 • Analogy • Arctic National Wildlife Refuge • Bank • behalf • biofuel • BNP Paribas • bribery • Business Plan • Carbon Capture and Storage • carbon energy • Chesapeake Energy • China Construction Bank • Climate • climate change • Climate Risk • Combustion • competitiveness • contempt • core business • Criticism • Customer • Deep sea • deforestation • Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act • Economic cost • Economy and society • Electricity Generation • Energy development • Environmental impact of the coal industry • Ethane (data page) • Ethylene • Every Nation • Externality • Filing (legal) • Filing (metalworking) • Financial Regulator • Fossil fuel • Frustration • Future Generation • geological formation • global warming • Government • gradualism • grandparent • Greenhouse Gas • Greenland Ice Sheet • Heat flux • Hedge Fund • High-voltage direct current • Incentive • Infrastructure • intermittency • international energy agency • Low-carbon economy • Market Mechanism • Melting • methane • misinformation • national wealth • Natural gas • Norm (social) • Occidental Petroleum • Occupational Safety and Health • Oil Well • Ownership (psychology) • Payment • Petroleum industry • Pipeline Transport • Plastic • Plastic pollution • Political corruption • pollution • positive feedback • Requirement • Responsiveness • Saudi Arabia • saving • Scale In • Scientist • sea level • Sea Level Rise • Shorthand • social disruption • Sociotechnical System • Soil • sovereign state • standard of living • Suggestion • Technology • Too big to fail • Useful Life • Vegetation • water supply • Wealth • window function • World Economy • year
• ISBN-10: 0-691-22625-3 / 0691226253
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-22625-5 / 9780691226255