Difference between revisions of "Climate Change"
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*What principles of justice should govern the sharing of burdens to address climate change? | *What principles of justice should govern the sharing of burdens to address climate change? | ||
*Should we continue to follow the Paris Accords? | *Should we continue to follow the Paris Accords? | ||
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===Research Needs=== | ===Research Needs=== | ||
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Climate Change
Main Topic Questions
- What are the ethical challenges of climate change abatement?
- What principles of justice should govern the sharing of burdens to address climate change?
- Should we continue to follow the Paris Accords?
- Does the United States have a moral obligation to uphold the Paris Climate Agreement and, if so, what is the extend to which the U.S. must uphold this agreement?
Research Needs
- Review Singer chapter on climate change.
- Look into arguments that address how climate change may harm the economy.
- Look into the ways in which climate change can help the economy (specifically in terms of future opportunities of clean energy)
- Find scientific information that explains global disproportionality of greenhouse gas emissions (the difference between emissions of developed countries and undeveloped countries)
- Review credible scientific sources that study the disproportionate effects of climate change on the poor and those that contribute least to global climate change
Arguments
- Research on the green house gas contributions of developed versus developing countries. United States is top GHG contributor. 50% of the global CO2 emission budget has already been used if we are globally aiming for only a 2 C increase in global temperatures by 2100. Each country should have an average of 0.22 C emissions per billion people in order to achieve the 2 C increase target, but many developed countries, including the United States, are already exceeding this value. In addition, in manufacturing heavy countries such as China, many of the GHG emissions result from products that are shipped for consumption to developed countries. http://berc.berkeley.edu/ranking-global-warming-contributions-by-country/
Insights
http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science_and_impacts/science/each-countrys-share-of-co2.html
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/WorldOfChange/decadaltemp.php
