Ethics of Climate Change

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

Climate change is a “moral storm” requiring swift and unprecedented human cooperation at both local and global levels to solve it. This pressing global crisis is pregnant with many interesting philosophical/ethical issues such as the responsibilities we have to address the climate problem, how climate change affects human rights and well-being, geoengineering, carbon capture and other greenhouse gas removal technologies and their ethical implications, climate refugees, indigenous people and their unique situation in a warming globe, what current generations owe future generations, what ethical concerns need to feature in a climate change policy etc. This course will draw from ethics, political philosophy, social justice, and other relevant philosophical sources to comprehensively explore these and other important ethical issues.