The Anthropocene project : virtue in the age of climate change / Byron Williston.
Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015Edition: First edition.Description: 1 online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780191808975 (ebook) :.Subject(s): Climatic changes -- Government policy
| Climatic changes -- Social aspects | Environmental ethics | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ChangeAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780198746713DDC classification: 363.738745 Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: The Fifth Assessment Report of the IPCC contains a detailed analysis of the threats climate change poses to human security. The IPCC chairman stated recently that the new report shows how our persistent inaction on climate change presents a grave threat to 'the very social stability of human systems'. This book attempts to make philosophical sense of this. We are now in 'the human age' - the Anthropocene - but it argues that this is no mere geological marker. It is instead best viewed as the latest permutation of an already existing moral and political project rooted in Enlightenment values.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Fifth Assessment Report of the IPCC contains a detailed analysis of the threats climate change poses to human security. The IPCC chairman stated recently that the new report shows how our persistent inaction on climate change presents a grave threat to 'the very social stability of human systems'. This book attempts to make philosophical sense of this. We are now in 'the human age' - the Anthropocene - but it argues that this is no mere geological marker. It is instead best viewed as the latest permutation of an already existing moral and political project rooted in Enlightenment values.
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