climate change

The chapter “Jane Austen vs. Climate Economics ” draws on the actions of John and Fanny Dashwood in Sense and Sen-sibility to consider moral corruption and how it affects the climate debate. Gardiner also offers extensive discussions of geoengineer-ing, international climate negotiations, popu-lation ethics, and climate change skepticism. A Perfect Moral Storm provides a rich analysis of the ethical challenges that we must tackle in the face of climate change. Gardiner effectively makes the case that while responding to and understanding cli-mate change necessarily involves many disci-plines, the effects of climate change on us, on future generations, and on the environment mean that we must determine how to distrib-ute the impacts of climate change fairly and how to weigh present-day sacrifi ces against future benefi ts. Once we start thinking about these issues, the problem posed by climate change falls fi rmly in the domain of ethics. By analyzing the complex “moral storm ” cre-ated by climate change, Gardiner gives us an insight into whether our theoretical tools are adequate to understanding the ethical reality of climate change, which is an important fi rst step in proposing just solutions. His consider-ation of whether our theoretical tools are ade-quate to understanding the ethical challenges of climate change provides an important step toward identifying just solutions