American heat : ethical problems with the United States' response to global warming / Donald A. Brown

Author:: Brown, Donald A., 1944-
Published:: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2002]
Copyright Date:: ©2002
Physical Description:: xxi, 261 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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Studies in social, political, and legal philosophy

Contents:

PRELIMINARY MATTERS: Absence of ethical concern -- History of U.S. participation in global warming negotiations -- Environmental ethics and global warming policy -- Global warming, ethics, and foreign policy -- What is at stake? global warming's threat to human health and the environment -- Uncertainty in the science of climate change -- ETHICAL ANALYSIS OF U.S. EXCUSES FOR LACK OF ACTION ON GLOBAL WARMING: Ethical duty to reduce emissions in the face of scientific uncertainty about global warming consequences -- U.S. obligations to act even if the developing world does not -- Ethical issues entailed by the use of cost-benefit analysis-based arguments made in opposition to U.S. greenhouse gas reduction programs -- Ethical problems with the U.S. insistence on its view of the Kyoto flexibility mechanisms -- OTHER GLOBAL WARMING ETHICAL ISSUES: An equitable allocation of greenhouse gas emissions among nations -- Ethical dimensions of a greenhouse gas atmospheric stabilization target.

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ISBN:

0742512959 (cloth : alk. paper)
0742512967 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-256) and index.

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