Ethical Adaptation to Climate Change: Human Virtues of the Future Book

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: Adapting Humanity Allen Thompson Jeremy Bendik-Keymer 1

I Adapting Restoration to Climate Change 25

1 Nature Restoration as a Paradigm for the Human Relationship with Nature Ned Hettinger 27

2 Environmental Virtues and the Aims of Restoration William M. Throop 47

3 Global Warming and Virtues of Ecological Restoration Ronald Sandler 63

4 History, Novelty, and Virtue in Ecological Restoration Eric Higgs 81

II Integrating Ecology into the Virtue of Justice 103

5 The Death of Restoration? Andrew Light 105

6 Animal Flourishing and Capabilities in an Era of Global Change Jozef Keulartz Jac. A. A. Swart 123

7 Environment as Meta-capability: Why a Dignified Human Life Requires a Stable Climate System Breena Holland 145

8 Justice, Ecological Integrity, and Climate Change David Schlosberg 165

III Adjusting Character to a Changing Environment 185

9 Ethics, Public Policy, and Global Warming Dale Jamieson 187

10 The Virtue of Responsibility for the Global Climate Allen Thompson 203

11 Rethinking Greed Jason Kawall 223

12 Are We the Scum of the Earth? Climate Change, Geoengineering, and Humanity's Challenge Stephen M. Gardiner 241

IV Reorganizing Institutions to Enable Human Virtue 261

13 The Sixth Mass Extinction Is Caused by Us Jeremy Bendik-Keymer 263

14 Human Values and Institutional Responses to Climate Change Kenneth Shockley 281

15 Alienation and the Commons Steven Vogel 299

16 Thinking like a Planet Paul D. Hirsch Bryan G. Norton 317

About the Contributors 335

Index 337