Climate change as a challenge
to ethical action
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Wyższa Szkoła Gospodarki Euroregionalnej im.
Alcide De Gasperi w Józefowie
Publication date: 2015-12-31
JoMS 2015;27(4):33-50
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The connection between the alarming data on climate change and the other factors
like increasing energy demand in the late twentieth century, the intensification of the
consumer lifestyle in the developed countries, the increasing greenhouse gas emissions
and the growing number of people in the world, has shown the need for more
accurate look at the evolution of new environmental problems. Although the issues
pertaining to the air pollution and climate change have been emphasized in international
documents since the seventies of the twentieth century, it is only 30 years later
when the philosophers became interested in that subject. The growing energy consumption
and its impact on the climate change, highlights the importance of ethical
issues. They not only focus on responsibility for damages that have been done, but also
concentrate on obligations to future generations and millions of species which inhabit
the planet. The cost of mitigation and adaptation is also important. The article will be
about the problem that focuses on degree of responsibility of individual countries for
climate changes, as well as, there will be presented proposals of allocation of future
emissions and their reasoning. There also will be made suggestions which may be
helpful to overcome the climate crisis.