CART: 0 item(s) $0.00American Heat: Ethical Problems with the United States' Response to Global Warming
Series: Studies in Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy
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Donald A. Brown Foreword by Tim Weiskel, Harvard Seminar on Environmental Values |
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"Drawing on his own deeply American conscience, Don Brown has put America's indifference to the climate crisis into its most essential context--human ethics. As American Heat illustrates, our response to global warming is corroding our most cherished values. With so much of the debate focused on science and economics, Brown forces us to confront what we are doing to our poor neighbors around the world, to our species at home and, ultimately, to our own children."—Ross Gelbspan, 1984 Pulitzer Prize Winner and author, The Heat Is On.
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When the world began to wake up to the global environmental crisis in the 1970s, the United States was the undisputed world leader in environmental policy. Yet, on an unsettling number of international environmental issues--including global warming--the U.S. has not only forfeited its leadership role but has too often become the major barrier to protecting the global environment. In American Heat, Donald Brown critically analyzes the U.S. response to global warming, inviting readers to examine the implicit morality of the U.S position, and ultimately to help lead the world toward an equitable sharing of the burdens and benefits of protecting the global environment. In short, Brown argues that an ethical focus on global environmental matters is the key to achieving a globally acceptable solution.
About the Author
Donald A. Brown is director of the Pennsylvania Consortium for Interdisciplinary Environmental Policy and former program manager for United Nations Organizations at the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of International Environmental Policy.