Climate change and the threat of disaster: the moral case for taking out insurance at our grandchildren's expense

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Climate change and the threat of disaster: the moral case for taking out insurance at our grandchildren's expense

Is drastic action against global warming essential to avoid impoverishing our descendants? Or does it mean robbing the poor to give to the rich? Alas, we don’t yet know. Yet most of us can agree on the importance of minimizing expected deprivation. Because of the vast number of future generations, i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Rendall, Matthew
Format:	Article
Published:	Wiley-Blackwell 2011
Subjects:	Climate change; catastrophe; intergenerational justice; discounting; public debt
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/1386/

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