May 20, 2008
The Ethics of Climate Change: Pay Now or Pay More Later?
From Scientific American:
Future generations will suffer most of the harmful effects of global climate change. Yet if the world economy grows, they will be richer than we are.
- The present generation must decide, with the help of expert advice from economists, whether to aggressively reduce the chances of future harm or to let our richer descendants largely fend for themselves.
- Economists cannot avoid making ethical choices in formulating their advice.
- Even the small chance of utter catastrophe from global warming raises special problems for ethical discussion.
What should we do about climate change? The question is an ethical one. Science, including the science of economics, can help discover the causes and effects of climate change. It can also help work out what we can do about climate change. But what we should do is an ethical question.
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Posted by Azra Raza at 05:23 AM | Permalink
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The 'science" of economics!?!?
I'd believe the science of creationistagagas before economists. It's a total and continuing mystery why they are even fed, let alone allowed to wander freely amongst humans
Posted by: epicene | May 20, 2008 8:07:13 AM
Save yourself a lot of trouble. Read Bjorn Lomborg.
Posted by: Luke Lea | May 20, 2008 10:27:38 AM
"It's a total and continuing mystery why they are even fed, let alone allowed to wander freely amongst humans"
I often feel that way about the royal family.
Posted by: Jared | May 20, 2008 10:44:06 AM
They let the royal family wander freely?
I thought they were pretty much shut into their gilded cage.
Posted by: reader | May 20, 2008 2:27:49 PM
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