Why it is rational to expect the horrible–The future of humanity and climate change

K Szocik, M Häyry - South African Journal of Philosophy, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Climate change poses a challenge to bioethics due to overpopulation and a declining
quality of life, among other factors. In this article, we discuss four scenarios of possible …

Climate change and anti-natalism: Between the horrible and the unthinkable

K Szocik, M Häyry - South African Journal of Philosophy, 2024 - journals.co.za
There is no longer any doubt that the coming decades will bring serious threats to humanity
from anthropogenic climate change. As we have suggested elsewhere, horrible scenarios …

FUTURE GENERATIONS AND CONCEPTS OF WELL-BEING.

H Berdinesen - Filozofia, 2018 - search.ebscohost.com
Because climate change threatens human welfare across the globe, in both near and distant
future, we need a philosophical concept of well-being that reflects such a large scope. This …

Economic growth or the flourishing of life: The ethical choice climate change puts to humanity

P Cafaro - Essays in Philosophy, 2010 - pdcnet.org
According to the 4th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,
released in 2007, global climate change (GCC) constitutes a grave threat to human …

[PDF][PDF] Climate change and the future: Discounting for time, wealth, and risk

S Caney - Journal of social philosophy, 2009 - academia.edu
There is no quality in human nature, which causes more fatal errors in our conduct, than that
which leads us to prefer whatever is present to the distant and remote, and makes us desire …

Plan B: Global ethics on climate change

M Schönfeld - Journal of Global Ethics, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
This introduction to the special issue on climate puts individual contributions in context.
Climate change is the result of the current civilization paradigm and its modes of cognition …

Climate change and the terrible hope

L Floridi - Philosophy & Technology, 2023 - Springer
Disasters are of many kinds, but at least two can be distinguished using Greek terms:
tragedies and catastrophes (I know,“what joy”, to quote the popular song based on Psalm …

[DOC][DOC] Capitalism vs the Climate: What Then Should We Do? What Then Should I Do?

D Schweickart - Radical Philosophy Review, 2018 - researchgate.net
We are facing a terrifying moment in human history, but also a miraculous moment. At the
very time when climate change threatens our species with extinction, we not only know that …

Introduction: Plan B: global ethics on climate change

M Schönfeld - Global Ethics on Climate Change, 2013 - taylorfrancis.com
This introduction to the special issue on climate puts individual contributions in context.
Climate change is the result of the current civilization paradigm and its modes of cognition …

Anthropogenic climate change: Scientific uncertainties and moral dilemmas

R Hillerbrand, M Ghil - Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 2008 - Elsevier
This paper considers the role of scientific expertise and moral reasoning in the decision
making process involved in climate-change issues. It points to an unresolved moral dilemma …