Climate Change Ethics and the Non-Human World

<p>This book examines from different perspectives the moral significance of non-human members of the biotic community and their omission from climate ethics literature. </p><p>The complexity of life in an age of rapid climate change demands the development of moral frameworks that recognize and respect the dignity and agency of both human and non-human organisms. Despite decades of careful work in non-anthropocentric approaches to environmental ethics, recent anthologies on climate ethics have largely omitted non-anthropocentric approaches. This multidisciplinary volume of international scholars tackles this lacuna by presenting novel work on non-anthropocentric approaches to climate ethics. Written in an accessible style, the text incorporates sentiocentric, biocentric, and ecocentric perspectives on climate change.</p><p>With diverse perspectives from both leading and emerging scholars of environmental ethics, geography, religious studies, conservation ecology, and environmental studies, this book will offer a valuable reading for students and scholars of these fields.</p> <p>Foreword Introduction<em> </em>1. Climate Change and the Loss of Nonhuman Welfare 2. Anthropocentrism and the Anthropocene: Restoration and Geoengineering as Negative Paradigms of Epistemological Domination<i> </i>3. Climate Ethics Bridging Animal Ethics to Overcome Climate Inaction: An Approach from Strategic Visual Communication 4. Suffering, Sentientism, and Sustainability: An Analysis of a Non-Anthropocentric Moral Framework for Climate Ethics 5. Biocentrism, Climate Change, and the Spatial and Temporal Scope of Ethics 6. Evaluating Climate Change with the Language of the Forms of Life<em> </em>7. Thinking Through the Anthropocene: Educating for a Planetary Community 8. Conflicting Advice: Resolving Conflicting Moral Recommendations in Climate and Environmental Ethics 9. An Eco-centric Proposal for Setting a Price on Greenhouse Gas Emissions<i> </i>10. Being Human: An Ecocentric Approach to Climate Ethics<i> </i>11. Atmospheres of Object-Oriented Ontology 12. Monsters, Metamorphoses, and The Horror of Ethics in the "Pelagioscene" 13. Gut Check: Imagining a Posthuman "Climate" 14. Wonderland Earth in the Anthropocene Epoch</p>