Three Questions on Climate Change. Issue 3 (4th September 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Palmer, Clare
• Is Part Of: Ethics & international affairs. Volume 28:Issue 3(2014)
• Page Start: 343
• Page End: 350
• Publication Date: 2014-09-04
• Subjects: International relations -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Periodicals; 172.405
• DOI: 10.1017/S0892679414000410
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0892-6794

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="text-abstract"> <title> <x content-type="archive" xml:space="preserve">Abstract</x> </title> <p>Climate change will have highly significant and largely negative effects on human societies into the foreseeable future, effects that are already generating ethical and policy dilemmas of unprecedented scope, scale, and complexity. One important group of ethical and policy issues raised here concerns what I call <italic>environmental</italic> values. By this I do not mean the impact that climate change will have on the environment as a valuable human resource, nor am I referring to the changing climate as a threat to humans in terms of floods, storms, and droughts, important as these are. Rather, I am concerned with the way climate change—and the policies that may be adopted to respond to it—threatens both things we value and, potentially, some of our environmental values themselves.</p> </abstract>