What should we do about climate change?
-science, ethical, should, conflict, questions
Climate change raises a number of ethical questions
-future generations, evaluate, change, respond, death
Many ethical questions can be settled by common sense
-philosophy, harm, equipped(potential to change), victim(future generations), compensate
Climate change will cause harm
-tropical distress, climate statistics, shortages, deaths, change in climate, estimations
In going about our daily lives
-everyday life, pollution, we each contribute to catastrophes
Ethics of costs and benefits
-conservative living, weighing costs and benefits, pros and cons, natural disasters
The ethical basis of cost-benefit
-costs, comparing and contrasting costs, economics, reactions, ethical vs. unethical, urgent
Those two issues are connected
-future vs. present, discount rate, value
The richer future
-material goods and services, value, diminishing marginal value, maximize well being, prioritarianism and utilitarianism.
Market Discount Rates?
-well-being less valuable in old age than in youth, catastrophic outcomes, ethical as well as scientific problems, work to resolve them
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