Climate Change

This volume explores three central questions in the ethics and politics of climate change. First, it examines the limits of welfare economics and utilitarian approaches that continue to shape climate policy, and considers alternative ways of understanding our obligations to present and future generations. Second, it asks how climate change should be conceptualized: as a problem of economic inefficiency, distributive injustice, domination, or unfreedom, and whether climate injustice can be understood apart from underlying economic and power structures. Third, it addresses responsibility for climate change, including who bears it and how it should be fulfilled.