Ethical Adaptation to Climate Change : Human Virtues of the Future.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Adapting Humanity -- I Adapting Restoration to Climate Change -- 1 Nature Restoration as a Paradigm for the Human Relationship with Nature -- 2 Environmental Virtues and the Aims of Restoration -- 3 Global Warming and Virtues of Ecological Restoration -- 4 History, Novelty, and Virtue in Ecological Restoration -- II Integrating Ecology into the Virtue of Justice -- 5 The Death of Restoration? -- 6 Animal Flourishing and Capabilities in an Era of Global Change -- 7 Environment as Meta-capability: Why a Dignified Human Life Requires a Stable Climate System -- 8 Justice, Ecological Integrity, and Climate Change -- III Adjusting Character to a Changing Environment -- 9 Ethics, Public Policy, and Global Warming -- 10 The Virtue of Responsibility for the Global Climate -- 11 Rethinking Greed -- 12 Are We the Scum of the Earth? Climate Change, Geoengineering, and Humanity's Challenge -- IV Reorganizing Institutions to Enable Human Virtue -- 13 The Sixth Mass Extinction Is Caused by Us -- 14 Human Values and Institutional Responses to Climate Change -- 15 Alienation and the Commons -- 16 Thinking like a Planet -- About the Contributors -- Index.

An analytically precise and theoretically probing exploration of the challenge to our values and virtues posed by climate change.

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