TY - BOOK ID - 78144814 TI - Ethics and Climate Change AU - Coward, Harold AU - Hurka, Thomas PY - 2006 SN - 0889208549 9780889208544 PB - Waterloo Wilfrid Laurier University Press DB - UniCat KW - Effet de serre (Meteorologie) KW - Rechauffement de la Terre KW - Greenhouse effect, Atmospheric KW - Global warming KW - Atmospheric greenhouse effect KW - Atmospheric temperature KW - Heat budget (Geophysics) KW - Infrared albedo KW - Solar radiation KW - Warming, Global KW - Global temperature changes KW - Prise de decision KW - Aspect moral. KW - Decision making KW - Moral and ethical aspects. KW - Environmental aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78144814 AB - Faced with the prospect of global warming, the anticipated rapid rise in global air temperatures due to the release of gases into the atmosphere, we have two choices of how to respond: adaptation or avoidance. With adaptation we keep burning fossil fuels, let global temperatures rise and make whatever changes this requires: move people from environmentally damaged areas, build sea walls, etc. With avoidance we stop warming from occurring, either by reducing our use of fossil fuels or by using technology such as carbon dioxide recovery after combustion to block the warming effect. Yet each ER -