Ethics and Climate Change :: the Greenhouse Effect.

Faced with the prospect of global warming, the anticipated rapid rise in global air temperatures due to the release of gases into the atmosphere, we have two choices of how to respond: adaptation or avoidance. With adaptation we keep burning fossil fuels, let global temperatures rise and make whatev...

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1. Verfasser: Coward, Harold
Weitere Verfasser: Hurka, Thomas
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Waterloo : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006.
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Zusammenfassung:Faced with the prospect of global warming, the anticipated rapid rise in global air temperatures due to the release of gases into the atmosphere, we have two choices of how to respond: adaptation or avoidance. With adaptation we keep burning fossil fuels, let global temperatures rise and make whatever changes this requires: move people from environmentally damaged areas, build sea walls, etc. With avoidance we stop warming from occurring, either by reducing our use of fossil fuels or by using technology such as carbon dioxide recovery after combustion to block the warming effect. Yet each str.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (215 pages)
ISBN:9780889208544
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