TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wallraff,Dean
TI  - Earthling: A New Ethics for the Anthropocene
SN  - 9781871891683
AV  - QC903 .W355 2023 
U1  - 363.73874 
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Bradford
PB  - Ethics International Press Limited
KW  - Climatic changes-Effect of human beings on
KW  - Human-animal relationships
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Preface -- Why I'm writing this book -- Useful information when reading this book -- The overall scheme -- International viewpoint -- The Anthropocene -- The metric system -- Acronyms -- Chapter 1 -- Climate Ethics -- Life on Earth -- The big picture -- An existential decision -- Philosophy must be the framework -- No taboos -- Animals in the moral universe -- Humans or Earth - which is more important? -- Human nature -- Eugenics -- Other ways to improve human nature -- Humanism is speciesist -- Human divisions -- Near and far -- Competition versus cooperation -- Individual vs. collective decisions -- Patriotism -- Money, money, money -- The value of human life -- Are all lives worth living? -- What should we do? -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2 -- Climate Change -- How science works -- How climate change works -- Sources of information -- The greenhouse effect -- Greenhouse gases -- Higher temperatures correlate with increased GHG concentrations -- The ocean and global heating -- The carbon cycle -- Albedo -- Land-use change -- Aerosols -- Contributions to global heating -- Feedback loops -- Tipping Points -- Earth's climate history -- Mitigation vs. adaptation -- Modelling Earth's climate -- Emissions scenarios -- Impacts of climate change -- Heat waves -- Increased storm events -- Melting ice -- Sea level rise -- Ocean impacts -- Floods and droughts -- Wildfires -- Tree mortality -- Cities -- Agriculture and other food production -- Migration and displacement -- Human health impacts -- Species loss -- Who is affected most by climate change? -- Negative emissions: Carbon sequestration, removal, and storage -- Forests and agriculture -- Geoengineering -- A plus four degree world -- The Gap Reports -- Big picture future -- Chapter 3 -- Sustainable Earth -- What is sustainability? -- History of humanity in three stages -- Future timescales; Existential risks -- The moral weight of future humans -- Exponential growth is not sustainable -- Population ( consumption = GDP -- Population -- Ethics: The value of a person -- Optimal global population -- Unsustainable resource depletion -- Consumption is not all bad -- Nuclear power -- Land use planning -- SER framework -- UN sustainable development goals -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4 -- Economics -- Introduction -- Sources -- An economic analysis framework -- GDP -- Externalities -- Paths to net zero -- Costs vs. investments -- Economic growth -- Discounting -- Distribution -- Climate damages -- Adaptation costs -- Cost of mitigation -- Total climate costs -- GHG reduction policies -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 -- Law -- My law practice: CEQA litigation -- Marquee climate litigation -- Climate lawsuits against governments -- Climate lawsuits against oil majors -- Public trust -- Private enforcement -- Other climate litigation -- Treaties -- International dispute resolution -- International climate law - the UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement -- International human rights law -- Rights -- Human rights -- Right to a clean and healthy environment. -- National legal systems -- Common law vs. civil law -- Types of domestic law -- United States -- European Union -- China -- An international constitution -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6 -- Politics -- Liberalism -- Progressivism -- The dialectic -- Socialism and communism -- Zero-sum game or labor theory of value? -- Environmental justice -- Are corporations more powerful than States? -- Do we love where we live? -- Internationalization v. nationalism -- The decline of the US -- American exceptionalism -- Who are the bad actors? -- Motivation for change -- Chapter 7 -- What We Need to Do -- Axioms -- Fossil Fuels -- Forestry and agriculture -- Research and development -- Help for developing countries -- Global action; Global climate treaty -- Fossil fuels under the GCT -- Deforestation under the GCT -- GCT finance -- Research and development -- Climate policies -- What can individuals do? -- Conclusion -- Sources -- Acknowledgements
N2  - Climate Change is the most important ethical problem humanity is facing right now. We are in the process of harming the Earth in ways that will diminish the quality of life for many future generations. Our old human-centrism, our national tribalism, and our short-term perspectives must give way to new ways of thinking that give moral standing to other animals, and that take global and long-term perspectives. In the year 3000, humankind will look back to the present century, which dramatically altered the planet's climate and ecosystems. Will they curse us as destroyers of the earthly paradise humankind enjoyed until now? To avoid this, we need to change our approach to ethics, economics, sustainability, politics, and law.Earthling: A New Ethics for the Anthropocene addresses sustainability, economics, politics, and law as important factors in climate ethics. It aims to both help with understanding these issues, and present potential solutions for the problem
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