tailieunhanh - Ethics and the Economist: What Climate Change Demands of Us - J. A. Nelson

 Ethics and the Economist: What Climate Change Demands of Us  trình bày các nội dung: Enlightenment - Beyond the beta version, ethics and economics - Beyond the Split, we must take action, we must work together,. để nắm bắt nội dung chi tiết.  | Global Development and Environment Institute Working paper no. 11-02 Ethics and the Economist What Climate Change Demands of Us J. a. Nelson May 2011 Tufts University Medford MA 02155 USA http gdae This working paper is also available as an E3 Economists for Equity and the Environment White Paper. A revised version will be published in Ecological Economics. Copyright 2011 Global Development and Environment Institute Tufts University GDAE Working Paper No. 11-02 Ethics and the Economist What Climate Change Demands of Us Abstract Climate change is changing not only our physical world but also our intellectual social and moral worlds. We are realizing that our situation is profoundly unsafe interdependent and uncertain. What then does climate change demand of us as human beings and as economists A discipline of economics based on Enlightenment notions of mechanism and disembodied rationality is not suited to present problems. This essay suggests three major requirements first that we take action second that we work together and third that we focus on avoiding the worst rather than obtaining the optimal. The essay concludes with suggestions of specific steps that economists can take as researchers teachers and in our other roles. Keywords climate change ethics catastrophe uncertainty interdependence Enlightenment responsibility embodied reason 1 GDAE Working Paper No. 11-02 Ethics and the Economist What Climate Change Demands of Us Ethics and the Economist What Climate Change Demands of Us J. A. Nelson Climate change is changing our world. Not only is it changing our physical world but also our intellectual social and moral worlds in ways that we could not have imagined a generation or two ago. The science of climate change and the political impasses associated with dealing with it demonstrate that we are in a profoundly unsafe interdependent and uncertain world. We are already experiencing levels of greenhouse gases the likes of which have