ABSTRACT

This book examines from different perspectives the moral significance of non-human members of the biotic community and their omission from climate ethics literature.

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.

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.

chapter |9 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|10 pages

Anthropocentrism and the Anthropocene

Restoration and geoengineering as negative paradigms of epistemological domination

chapter 3|16 pages

Climate ethics bridging animal ethics to overcome climate inaction

An approach from strategic visual communication

chapter 4|14 pages

Suffering, sentientism, and sustainability

An analysis of a non-anthropocentric moral framework for climate ethics

chapter 7|16 pages

Thinking through the Anthropocene

Educating for a planetary community

chapter 8|15 pages

Conflicting advice

Resolving conflicting moral recommendations in climate and environmental ethics

chapter 10|17 pages

Being human

An ecocentric approach to climate ethics

chapter 13|13 pages

Gut check

Imagining a posthuman “Climate”