The Ethics of Climate Change: Pay Now or Pay More Later?: Scientific American - The Diigo Meta page

• 07 Feb 12
  

  Margot Hull

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• 25 Jul 08
  

  ¿No deberíamos dejar que nuestros descendientes --probablemente más ricos-- acaparen entonces una mayor cuantía del gasto de frenar el calentamiento global?.

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• 17 Jul 08
  

  Anna Dennis

  Weighing our own prosperity against the chances that climate change will diminish the well-being of our grandchildren calls on economists to make hard ethical judgments.

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• 15 Jun 08
  

  Sheryl A. McCoy

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  Jeff Johnson

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  • Weighing our own prosperity against the chances that climate change will diminish the well-being of our grandchildren calls on economists to make hard ethical judgments

  • What should we do about climate change? The question is an ethical one. Science, including the science of economics, can help discover the causes and effects of climate change. It can also help work out what we can do about climate change. But what we should do is an ethical question.

     
• 30 May 08
  

  Jan Gondol
  • • Future generations will suffer most of the harmful effects of global climate change. Yet if the world economy grows, they will be richer than we are.
     
    • The present generation must decide, with the help of expert advice from economists, whether to aggressively reduce the chances of future harm or to let our richer descendants largely fend for themselves.
• 20 May 08
  

  Karen Quinteros
  • Climate change will cause harm. Heat waves, storms and floods will kill many people and harm many others. Tropical diseases, which will increase their range as the climate warms, will exact their toll in human lives. Changing patterns of rainfall will lead to local shortages of food and safe drinking water. Large-scale human migrations in response to rising sea levels and other climate-induced stresses will impoverish many people. As yet, few experts have predicted specific numbers, but some statistics suggest the scale of the harm that climate change will cause. The European heat wave of 2003 is estimated to have killed 35,000 people. In 1998 floods in China adversely affected 240 million. The World Health Organization estimates that as long ago as 2000 the annual death toll from climate change had already reached more than 150,000.

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