Climate change justice / Eric A. Posner, David Weisbach.

By:

Posner, Eric A, 1965- [author.]

Contributor(s):

Weisbach, David A [author.]

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781400834402
1400834406

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Climate change justice.DDC classification:

363.738/74526 22

LOC classification:

QC903 .P78 2010eb

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Contents:

Ethically relevant facts and predictions -- Policy instruments -- Symbols, not substance -- Climate change and distributive justice: climate change blinders -- Punishing the wrongdoers: a climate guilt clause? -- Equality and the case against per capita permits -- Future generations: the debate over discounting -- Global welfare, global justice, and climate change.

Summary: Climate change and justice are so closely associated that many people take it for granted that a global climate treaty should--indeed, must--directly address both issues together. But, in fact, this would be a serious mistake, one that, by dooming effective international limits on greenhouse gases, would actually make the world's poor and developing nations far worse off. This is the provocative and original argument of Climate Change Justice. Eric Posner and David Weisbach strongly favor both a climate change agreement and efforts to improve economic justice. But they make a powerful case tha.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Climate change and justice are so closely associated that many people take it for granted that a global climate treaty should--indeed, must--directly address both issues together. But, in fact, this would be a serious mistake, one that, by dooming effective international limits on greenhouse gases, would actually make the world's poor and developing nations far worse off. This is the provocative and original argument of Climate Change Justice. Eric Posner and David Weisbach strongly favor both a climate change agreement and efforts to improve economic justice. But they make a powerful case tha.