Climate Change
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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?
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 emissions
Arguments
Insights
http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science_and_impacts/science/each-countrys-share-of-co2.html
