The moral case of climate change

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Climate change is without doubt a scientific, technological and political issue. But it’s also a moral issue for at least three reasons: those who are experiencing or will experience the most negative effects of climate change – future generations, poorer people, animals and plants – are the least responsible for it; climate change is the result of a relatively small number of individuals abusing our natural resources at unmatched rate in the history of our planet; we can do something in terms of adaptation and mitigation strategies. The main lies probably in the fact that many people have a very weak moral perception about climate change and don’t respond to it. Ezra Markowitz and Azim Shariff, authors of the article “Climate Change and Moral Judgement”, point out the need to integrate climate change and our system of values, to foster a moral concern about climate change and getting people actively engaged.

Read the full article on CMCC magazine Climate Science and Policy

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