The ethics of climate change denial

B. Gremmen

The ethics of climate change denial

于Climate change and sustainable development

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B. Gremmen

B. Gremmen Wageningen University & University of Oxford, Hollandseweg 1, 6706 KN Wageningen, the Netherlands bart.gremmen@wur.nl

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Page Range:: 90–94

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.3920/9789086867530_0013

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For almost 30 years there has been a scientific debate on climate change. Most of the participants agree that consensus has been reached that there is enough evidence of human causation of recent observed warming, even if this is not a completely settled matter. This body of evidence, it is claimed by the majority of scientists and politicians, is needed to understand how to protect the world from potential harms. However, there remains a minority of scientists and politicians who claim that there is no evidence for the human causation of global warming. This minority, the so-called climate change deniers, believes that policies to reduce emissions of climate-altering gases will have a devastating effect on jobs and the overall economy. In their attacks on these views of the climate change deniers, the majority not only blames them for an outright distortion of climate change science, but also claim that disinformation about the state of climate change science is extraordinarily morally reprehensible. Their argument is that climate change denial will lead to non-action in reducing climate change’s threat and will cause severe consequences for the poorest people in the world. In their view climate change deniers put the human species at risk. In this paper I will analyze and evaluate the claim of the majority that climate change denial is an ethical issue, and not only a scientific matter.

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Climate change and sustainable development

Ethical perspectives on land use and food production

ISBN:: 9789086867530

出版社:: Wageningen Academic

印刷出版日期:: 15 Nov 2012

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