Climate Ethics: Justifying a Positive Social Time Preference

Recent debates over climate change policy have made it clear that the choice of a social discount rate has enormous consequences for the amount of mitigation that will be recommended. The social discount rate determines how future costs are to be compared to present costs. Philosophers, however, hav...

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Main Author: Heath, Joseph (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2017
In: Journal of moral philosophy
Year: 2017, Volume: 14, Issue: 4, Pages: 435-462
Further subjects:B Climate Change
B Environmental Ethics
B time preference
B social discount rate
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