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1 online resource (215 pages) |
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Table of Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Preface; Introduction; 1. The Challenge; 2. Ethical Principles; 3. Religious Responsibility; 4. The Arctic-A Canadian Case Study; 5. Personal Responsibility; 6. Corporate Responsibility; 7. International Responsibility; 8. Effective Economic Mechanisms: Efficiency and Ethical Considerations; 9. Energy Efficiency at Home and Abroad; Conclusion; About the Authors; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
Faced with the prospect of global warming, the anticipated rapid rise in global air temperatures due to the release of gases into the atmosphere, we have two choices of how to respond: adaptation or avoidance. With adaptation we keep burning fossil fuels, let global temperatures rise and make whatever changes this requires: move people from environmentally damaged areas, build sea walls, etc. With avoidance we stop warming from occurring, either by reducing our use of fossil fuels or by using technology such as carbon dioxide recovery after combustion to block the warming effect. Yet each str. |
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Environmental ethics -- Social aspects.
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Environmental ethics -- Social aspects. |
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Environmental ethics. |
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Global warming -- Decision making -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Global warming. |
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Decision making. |
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Global warming -- Social aspects.
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Global warming -- Social aspects. |
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Greenhouse effect, Atmospheric -- Decision making -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Greenhouse effect, Atmospheric. |
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Greenhouse gases -- Economic aspects.
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Greenhouse gases -- Economic aspects. |
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Greenhouse gases. |
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Philosophy.
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Philosophy. |
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Physics.
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Physics. |
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Science.
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Science. |
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Electronic books.
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Hurka, Thomas.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Coward, Harold. Ethics and Climate Change : The Greenhouse Effect. Waterloo : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, ©2006 9780889202337 |
| ISBN |
9780889208544 (electronic book) |
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0889208549 (electronic book) |
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