Reflections on Carbon Output
Title: Them and Us: Reflections on Carbon Output in the Developing World
Speaker: Martin Bunzl, Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University. Discussant: Michael Oppenheimer is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School and the Department of Geosciences at Princeton University.
Lecture Abstract: Recent studies project that Developing World carbon output will be large enough to create a climate crisis in and of itself by mid-century – irrespective of actions by the Developed World. In this talk I will examine the implications of this claim for the terms in which debates about climate are usually posed. I argue that a simple per capita allocation is an unlikely formula for success even if it is prima facie fair.
Part of the Ethics and Climate Change Series, co-sponsored by the Princeton Environmental Institute and the University Center for Human
Reflections on Carbon Output
February 19, 2009
Martin Bunzl
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