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Global Ethics on Climate Change

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 paradigm failing? Can other cultures offer solutions? Are there alternatives for designing a better future?

Just as the roots of the problem of climate change are cultural, the solution must be too. The contributors to Global Ethics on Climate Change explore cultural alternatives. This differs from conventional climate ethics, which tends to address the crisis with utilitarian, legalistic, and analytic tools. The authors in this volume doubt whether such paradigm patches will work. It may be time to think outside the box and consider non-Western insights about the good life, indigenous wisdom on being-in-the-world, and new ideas for civil evolution. This book is an examination of candidates for a Plan B.

This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Global Ethics.

Martin Schnfeld 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.

Global Ethics on Climate Change

The Planetary Crisis and Philosophical
Alternatives

Edited by

Martin Schnfeld

First published 2013
by Routledge
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Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
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This book is a reproduction of the Journal of Global Ethics, vol. 7, issue 2. The Publisher requests to those authors who may be citing this book to state, also, the bibliographical details of the special issue on which the book was based.

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ISBN 13: 978-0-415-50918-3

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Publisher's Note
The publisher would like to make readers aware that the chapters in this book may be referred to as articles as they are identical to the articles published in the special issue. The publisher accepts responsibility for any inconsistencies that may have arisen in the course of preparing this volume for print.

Contents

Martin Schnfeld

Michael Thompson

Byron Williston

Ernesto O. Hernndez

Bruce B. Janz

Shih-yu Kuo

Chen Xia and Martin Schnfeld

Jan Deckers

Sirkku Hellsten, Frederick Ochieng'-Odhiambo and Martin Schnfeld

Timothy B. Leduc

The following chapters were originally published in the Journal of Global Ethics, volume 7, issue 2 (August 2011). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:

Chapter 1

Introduction: Plan B: global ethics on climate change

Martin Schnfeld

Journal of Global Ethics, volume 7, issue 2 (August 2011) pp. 129136

Chapter 2

Climate, imagination, Kant, and situational awareness

Michael Thompson

Journal of Global Ethics, volume 7, issue 2 (August 2011) pp. 137148

Chapter 3

Moral progress and Canada's climate failure

Byron Williston

Journal of Global Ethics, volume 7, issue 2 (August 2011) pp. 149160

Chapter 4

Climate change and philosophy in Latin America

Ernesto O. Hernndez

Journal of Global Ethics, volume 7, issue 2 (August 2011) pp. 161172

Chapter 5

Watsuji Tetsuro, Fudo, and climate change

Bruce B. Janz

Journal of Global Ethics, volume 7, issue 2 (August 2011) pp. 173184

Chapter 6

Climate change and the ecological intelligence of Confucius

Shih-yu Kuo

Journal of Global Ethics, volume 7, issue 2 (August 2011) pp. 185194

Chapter 7

A Daoist response to climate change

Chen Xia and Martin Schnfeld

Journal of Global Ethics, volume 7, issue 2 (August 2011) pp. 195204

Chapter 8

Justice, negative GHIs, and the consumption of farmed animal products

Jan Deckers

Journal of Global Ethics, volume 7, issue 2 (August 2011) pp. 205216

Jan Deckers is a Bioethicist in Newcastle University's Medical School. He has published on ethical theory, the ethics of abortion and embryo research, and animal ethics. His current work focusses on the ethical issues associated with the consumption of products that have been derived from the bodies of animals.

Sirkku Hellsten is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Adjunct Professor of Social and Moral Philosophy at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Professor Hellsten has worked also as a Counsellor for Economics, Governance and Human Rights at the Finnish Embassies in Maputo (Mozambique) and Nairobi (Kenya); before that she was Reader in Development Ethics and Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Ethics at the University of Birmingham, UK. Professor Hellsten has published extensively on the issues related to development ethics, bioethics, global ethics, social justice and human rights. She is also a member of the advisory board of the International Development Ethics Association and an Editor of the Journal of Global Ethics.

Ernesto O. Hernndez is pursuing a doctoral degree at the University of South Florida, Tampa, USA. He received a BA in Philosophy from the University of Puerto Rico in 2003 and an MA in Philosophy from the University of South Florida in 2010. His research interests include ethics, Latin American thought, colonialism critique, and climate philosophy.

Bruce B. Janz is Chair of the Philosophy Department, Director of the Center for Humanities and Digital Research, and Associate Professor of Humanities at the University of Central Florida. He writes on African philosophy, concepts of place and space across multiple disciplines, and cultural philosophy. His book

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