1st Edition

Climate Change Ethics and the Non-Human World

Edited By Brian G. Henning, Zack Walsh Copyright 2020
226 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

226 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

226 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book examines from different perspectives the moral significance of non-human members of the biotic community and their omission from climate ethics literature. The complexity of life in an age of rapid climate change demands the development of moral frameworks that recognize and respect the dignity and agency of both human and non-human organisms. Despite decades of careful work in... Read more

Foreword
Eileen Crist

Introduction

Brian Henning and Zack Walsh

1. Climate Change and the Loss of Nonhuman Welfare
John Nolt

2. Anthropocentrism and the Anthropocene: Restoration and Geoengineering as Negative Paradigms of Epistemological Domination
Eric Katz

3. Climate Ethics Bridging Animal Ethics to Overcome Climate Inaction: An Approach from Strategic Visual Communication
Laura Fernández Aguilera

4. Suffering, Sentientism and Sustainability: An Analysis of a Non-Anthropocentric Moral Framework for Climate Ethics
Rebekah Humphreys

5. Biocentrism, Climate Change, and the Spatial and Temporal Scope of Ethics
Robin Attfield

6. Evaluating Climate Change with the Language of the Forms of Life
Claudio Campagna and Daniel Guevara

7. Thinking Through the Anthropocene: Educating for a Planetary Community
Whitney Bauman

8. Conflicting Advice: Resolving Conflicting Moral Recommendations in Climate and Environmental Ethics
Patrik Baard

9. An Eco-centric Proposal for Setting a Price on Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Karen Green

10. Being Human: An Ecocentric Approach to Climate Ethics
Amanda Nichols

11. Atmospheres of Object-Oriented Ontology
Sam Mickey

12. Monsters, Metamorphoses, and The Horror of Ethics in the ‘Pelagioscene’
Jeremy Gordon

13. Gut Check: Imagining a Posthuman ‘Climate’
Connie Johnston

14. Wonderland Earth in the Anthropocene Epoch
Holmes Rolston III

Biography

Brian G. Henning is a professor of philosophy and environmental studies at Gonzaga University. He is founding Co-Chair of the climate action group 350 Spokane. His research includes more than 35 articles and nine books, including Riders in the Storm: Ethics in an Age of Climate Change and the award-winning book The Ethics of Creativity.

Zack Walsh is Research Associate at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) in Potsdam, Germany. He co-leads the A Mindset for the Anthropocene (AMA) project, which is a transdisciplinary research project and emerging network of change agents integrating personal and socio-ecological transformations to sustainability.