BIOL-104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 36: Global Governance, Deferral, Environmental Ethics
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Environmental ethics considers which interests are morally important, who has moral responsibility, and whether we have moral duties to nonhuman animals and to nature. Climate change is a perfect molar storm the main components make it super hard for us to change even though we recognize that we need to. Dispersion of causes and effects fragmentation of agency institutional inadequacy. These manifest in the spatial and temporal dimension in the global problem and intergeneration problem, respectively. Emissions of greenhouse gases from any location travel to the upper atmosphere and play a role in affecting the climate globally. Our institutions can try to set rules for us since we form collective entities states, nations, corporations, etc. Getting people together to start to agree is hard. We all have different interests and a lot of reasons not to change. You would need a global governance structure for this. We have something sort of like that (cid:271)ut it"s (cid:374)ot really e(cid:374)for(cid:272)ea(cid:271)le.
