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Climate Change Discussions in Washington: A Matter of Contending Perspectives

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Michael C. MacCracken
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The peculiar features of the climate change problem pose substantial obstacles to our ability to make the hard choices necessary to address it. Climate change involves the convergence of a set of global, intergenerational and theoretical problems. This convergence justifies calling it a 'perfect moral storm'. One consequence of this storm is that, even if the other difficult ethical questions surrounding climate change could be answered, we might still find it difficult to act. For the storm makes us extremely vulnerable to moral corruption.

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Article provided by White Horse Press in its journal Environmental Values.

Volume (Year): 15 (2006)
Issue (Month): 3 (August)
Pages: 381-395
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Keywords: Climate change; climate change policy; global warming; climate impacts; perspectives on climate change; uncertainties and climate change;

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Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters
Q58 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environmental Economics: Government Policy

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