ABSTRACT
This chapter considers what rule consequentialism says about our moral obligations in the face of climate change. The chapter opens with an introduction to the approach that draws attention to some of the many ways in which it is possible to formulate rule-consequentialist theories. It then discusses, at a fairly high level of abstraction, what rule consequentialism might entail that we are morally required to do to address climate change; it becomes clear here that what formulation of the view we settle on makes an important difference to its implications. The chapter closes by examining in somewhat more concrete and specific terms what one particular version of rule consequentialism might say is morally demanded of us in order to avert the dangers of climate change, insofar as this is still possible.
