The price of responsibility: ethics in a time of climate change

M. Gjerris; C. Gamborg

The price of responsibility: ethics in a time of climate change

in Ethical futures: bioscience and food horizons

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M. Gjerris Danish Centre for Bioethics and Risk Assessment, University of Copenhagen, Rolighedsvej 25, 1958 Frederiksberg C, Denmark; mgj@life.ku.dk

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C. Gamborg Danish Centre for Bioethics and Risk Assessment, University of Copenhagen, Rolighedsvej 25, 1958 Frederiksberg C, Denmark; mgj@life.ku.dk

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Seiten:: 75–82

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.3920/9789086866731_012

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With the basic human ability to influence the lives of others follows an inevitable ethical responsibility. Quite often we choose to forget this, just following the norms of society or our own preferences. In many situations, this works fairly well. However, norms may be challenged and sometimes we might be obliged to set aside our own interests. Furthermore we might end up in situations where we acknowledge the ethical responsibility, but where we are in doubt about how to respond, since the elements of the situation are uncertain or we have conflicting values. Climate change is just such a situation. It obviously raises technical issues such as: how we can maintain our current transportation patterns and at the same time cut down on CO2 emissions? But behind such a question and the possible answers to it, lie ethical choices based on our fundamental values. This paper examines two cases: Biofuels and GM plants. Both are often suggested as ways of coping with the inescapable impacts of climate change. The paper argues that part of our responsibilities is to set forth and discuss the broader societal visions and values implicit in these technologies before rushing to implement them after a brief search for any new specific ethical issues. The ethical discussions related to climate change are rather a question of understanding familiar problems in a new context, where climate change and its consequences accentuate the need for addressing some of the perennial ethical questions.

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Ethical futures: bioscience and food horizons

ISBN:: 9789086866731

Verleger:: Wageningen Academic

Print-Publikationsdatum:: 30 Oct 2009

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