ABSTRACT

This conclusion covers closing thoughts of key concepts discussed in preceding chapters of this book. The book offers no simple solution or resolution about the theory and practice of global ethics. It gives some ideas about ways that the problems can be tackled and arguments to support such changes of the challenge of "solving" the problems of poverty or climate change can seem overwhelming. Poverty then creates opportunities for exploitation and makes the poor vulnerable: willing to be trafficked, say, or to sell their organs. Climate change exacerbates poverty and migration, which in turn put pressure on resources, which then exacerbates climate change. Any ethical approach that separates different issues - or fails to consider the wider contextual issues - is not ethical, because it is wilfully ignoring important contributors to injustice. There is a distinctive approach that has certain characteristics and requirements: the threefold global-ethics approach is global in scope, is multidisciplinary and connects theory and practice.