Uncertainty and the Philosophy of Climate Change

Martin Bunzl is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University, USA, where he founded the Rutgers Initiative on Climate and Social Policy.

• Preface 1. Risk and the Perception of Risk 2. The Cost of Extinction 3. The Rights of Those Who Will Not Be 4. The Three Tropes of Climate Change 5. The View from the Inside of Poverty 6. Social Policy and Rational Action 7. The Tragedy of the Commons Revisited 8. Negotiations Gone Bad 9. Going it alone 10. What if it is too late? 11. Fusion Bibliography

Martin Bunzl brings philosophy out of the ivory tower and into our everyday lives. What responsibility do I have to my future self, 20 years from now? What responsibility do we, as a society, have to future generations and the natural environment? Bunzl compellingly makes the case that an understanding of philosophic issues is central to successfully addressing the most important question of our lives: How to live well in a world where our actions can inflict (or at least not alleviate) hardship and suffering on others?Ken Caldeira, Carnegie Institution for Science, USAMartin Bunzl takes the idea of climate change as a risk management problem seriously. In a book that is personal, as well as philosophically, politically, and scientifically well-informed, he asks us to see the challenge of climate change in collective terms. Our future is dark, according to the author, unless we can overcome our individualism and parochial concerns.Dale Jamieson, New York University, USA