ABSTRACT
Fairness and freedom are both notions that are problematic within the histories of ethics and political theory. Martin Heidegger is commenting, in the context of modern technology, not only upon the limitation of calculative, techno-scientific problem-solving, but also the human capacity to think, in a deep sense, about the condition of humankind in the world. Antonio Guterres message is unambiguous: questions of climate science are settled; devastating economic consequences are foreseen; the nations of the world have a moral imperative. Climate change in this example becomes, among other things, a matter of cost-containment necessary to keep the shipping industry viable. Thus one can argue on straightforward business or economic terms for the necessity of controlling the disruptive effects of tumultuous rain. As the issue has been moved in its most fundamental form from the arenas of technology, economics and politics and been put forth as a specifically ethical question, the limits of ethical discourse have been reached.
