John Broome, White’s Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford, and lead author on Working Group III of the U.N.'s International Panel on Climate Change, will present a talk on “Climate Change: Life and Death,” January 22, 2015 at noon in the reading room on the 11th floor of the Thompson Library.
The abstract of Broome’s presentation:
The ethical issues raised by climate change can be roughly divided into two classes: issues of fairness or justice, and issues of value. In this talk I shall concentrate on value, and particularly on the special questions of value that arise from the life-and-death effects of climate change.
Broome is author of Climate Matters: Ethics in a Warming World (Norton Global Ethics Series, 2012), a look at the moral dimensions of climate change.