TONIGHT! IEPA Event - "Climate Change Injustice: Responsibility and Response"

Tuesday, April 5th

7:30 pm, Constant Hall 1005

Free and open to the public

ODU's Institute for Ethics and Public Affairs presents Climate Change Injustice: Responsibility and Response, a talk by Prof. G. Madison Powers, Senior Research Scholar, Kennedy Institute of Ethics and Professor of Philosophy, Georgetown University.

Here is a brief summary from Dr. Powers: "In this talk I discuss the disagreement among philosophers on how to characterize the ethical issues posed by climate change. One view holds that because of the complex causes of global warming our traditional theories of moral responsibility leave us without grounds for holding anyone accountable or for apportioning fairly the costs of mitigation and adaptation. A second view holds that our conceptions of human rights are perfectly adequate to the task and that there are identifiable parties who should be held accountable. Moreover, there are clear human rights violations that justify a variety of responses, including active resistance and the imposition of costs on the beneficiaries of the high standard of living made possible by reliance on fossil fuels. Global sea rise and the impact on agriculture are examples of particular importance in this debate."

Powers Climate Change Injustice 4-16.pdf  (204.7 KB)

Posted By: Elizabeth Hinkley
Date: Mon Apr 04 14:24:15 EDT 2016