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The need for thinking about fairness and justice is widely recognized, in determining how the effort to reduce climate change should be distributed between countries. This lecture argues that there is also an important need for value theory, in evaluating the harm that climate change will do and in determining what effort should be put into reducing it. Among other applications of value theory, we need to judge the value of changes in the world's human population. Climate change and climate policy will have major effects on population. If climate change is extreme - as is possible - it will even cause a collapse in the population. Yet policymakers have so far paid no attention to evaluating these changes. The philosophy of population ethics is needed to close this gap.
Prof. John Broome, University of Oxford, is Emeritus White’s Professor of Moral Philosophy and Emeritus Fellow of Corpus Christi College.
Contact
Anne Dombrowski
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems
Phone: 030 2093-66334
anne.dombrowski@hu-berlin.de
Information on participating / attending:
The event will be in English.
Date:
06/30/2016 17:15 - 06/30/2016 18:45
Event venue:
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum
Room: Auditorium
Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 1-3
10117 Berlin
Berlin
Germany
Target group:
all interested persons
Email address:
Relevance:
transregional, national
Subject areas:
Biology, Geosciences, Oceanology / climate, Social studies
Types of events:
Presentation / colloquium / lecture
Entry:
06/22/2016
Sender/author:
Ibou Diop
Department:
Stabsstelle Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
Event is free:
yes
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event54709
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