Climate change, justice and future generations.184376184X Climate change, justice and future generations. Page, Edward A. Edward Elgar Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, OM, GCVO (2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English Romantic composer. Several of his first major orchestral works, including the Enigma Variations and the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, were greeted with acclaim. Publishing 2006 209 pages $95.00 Hardcover QC981 The near universal scientific consensus that human activity is contributing to global warming global warming, the gradual increase of the temperature of the earth's lower atmosphere as a result of the increase in greenhouse gases since the Industrial Revolution. and that global warming is likely to result in weather events that cause ever greater damage to human populations and to economies leads to a number of practical and ethical political questions regarding what can and should be done to mitigate the expected damage, who should bear the costs of climate change, whether the needs of the currently living outweigh out·weigh tr.v. out·weighed, out·weigh·ing, out·weighs 1. To weigh more than. 2. To be more significant than; exceed in value or importance: The benefits outweigh the risks. the needs of coming generations, and the like. Page (political science and international studies, U. of Birmingham, UK) tackles these and a number of related questions, basing his discussion on a foundation that insists that an understanding of ethics ethics, in philosophy, the study and evaluation of human conduct in the light of moral principles. Moral principles may be viewed either as the standard of conduct that individuals have constructed for themselves or as the body of obligations and duties that a is essential for developing effective and legitimate policy responses to climate change and the idea of distributive justice DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE. That virtue, whose object it is to distribute rewards and punishments to every one according to his merits or demerits. Tr. of Eq. 3; Lepage, El. du Dr. ch. 1, art. 3, Sec. 2 1 Toull. n. 7, note. See Justice. should lie at the heart of the ethical system used to formulate these responses. ([c]20062005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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