Environmental Values
Environmental Values 15(2006): 397-413. doi: 10.3197/096327106778226293
ABSTRACT
The peculiar features of the climate change problem pose substantial obstacles to our ability to make the hard choices necessary to address it. Climate change involves the convergence of a set of global, intergenerational and theoretical problems. This convergence justifies calling it a 'perfect moral storm'. One consequence of this storm is that, even if the other difficult ethical questions surrounding climate change could be answered, we might still find it difficult to act. For the storm makes us extremely vulnerable to moral corruption.
KEYWORDS: Global warming, tragedy of the commons, game theory, global environment
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