Philosophical Foundations of Climate Change Policy

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Philosophical Foundations of Climate Change Policy
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Contents
Preface
Introduction
1. False Starts
	1.1. Traditional Environmental Ethics
	1.2. Liberal Environmentalism
	1.3. Conclusion
2. Climate Change and Growth
	2.1. The Undemandingness Problem
	2.2. Limits to Growth
	2.3. Impacts of Climate Change
	2.4. Sustainability and Fungibility
	2.5. Catastrophe
	2.6. Conclusion
3. Intergenerational Justice
	3.1. The Consequentialist Challenge
	3.2. The Structure of Intergenerational Cooperation
	3.3. Applications and Objections
	3.4. Just Savings
	3.5. Conclusion
4. The Case for Carbon Pricing
	4.1. Market Reciprocity
	4.2. Carbon Pricing
	4.3. Example: Food
	4.4. Complementary Policies
	4.5. Conclusion
5. The Social Cost of Carbon
	5.1. Embedded CBA
	5.2. Basic Principles of CBA
	5.3. CBA and Regulation
	5.4. Objections and Replies
	5.5. Climate Change
	5.6. Compensating the Losers?
6. Positive Social Time Preference
	6.1. The Case for Temporal Neutrality
	6.2. Reflective Equilibrium
	6.3. Institutionalized Responsibility
	6.4. Thinking Politically
	6.5. Discounting for Deontologists
	6.6. Conclusion
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index