ABSTRACT
This chapter claims that discussions about climate ethics, by either lobbies or climate advocates, are fundamentally flawed in their prioritization of human interests. Climate change denialism in its different varieties is usually opposed to environmentalism. The chapter rejects this view and argues that environmentalism cannot provide us with good enough reasons on which to ground an ethics of climate change. The badness of anthropogenic climate change and the strength of our reasons to oppose it can only be assessed by considering the interests of both human and nonhuman individuals. If climate change is to be prevented or mitigated, it must be because it is bad for all individuals affected by it, irrespective of species membership or other irrelevant criteria. Thus, an alternative (antispeciesist) approach to the ethics of climate change is necessary. Once we adopt such an approach, our reasons to mitigate climate change may be even stronger than ordinarily supposed.
