1st Edition

Global Ethics on Climate Change The Planetary Crisis and Philosophical Alternatives

Edited By Martin Schonfeld Copyright 2013
144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

The volatility of climate change is increasing. It is bad news, and many climatologists, policy analysts and environmental groups regard the West as the largest contributor to the problems caused by climate change. This book raises questions concerning the systemic and cultural reasons for Western countries’ unwillingness to bear full responsibility for their carbon emissions. Is the Western... Read more

1. Plan B: Global Ethics on Climate Change Martin Schönfeld, University of South Florida, USA 

2. Climate and the American Maladaptation Mike Thompson, University of North Texas, USA

3. Moral Progress and Canada’s Climate Failure Byron Williston, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada

4. Climate Change and Philosophy in Latin America Ernesto O. Hernández, University of South Florida, USA

5. Japan’s Early Philosophy of Climate Bruce B. Janz, University of Central Florida, USA

6. Climate Change and the Ecological Intelligence of Confucius Shih-Yu Kuo, Academica Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

7. A Daoist Response to Climate Change Chen Xia, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China & Martin Schönfeld Univ of South Florida

8. Climate and the Consumption of Farmed Animal Products Jan Decker, University of Newcastle, UK

9. African Philosophy and Climate Change Workineh Kelbessa, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia 

10. Inuit Values and Arctic Perspectives on Climate Change Timothy Leduc, York University, Canada

Biography

Martin Schönfeld is a former Kant scholar and historian of the European Enlightenment.  He teaches at the University of South Florida and conducts philosophy workshops in Taiwan.  He organized the first international philosophy conference on climate (2006) and edits the Climate Philosophy Newsletter.  He writes on climate, the American Disenlightenment, and civil evolution.