A Perfect Moral Storm
A Perfect Moral Storm
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完美的道德风暴
DOI：
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195379440.001.0001
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发表时间：
2011
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影响因子：
3.9
通讯作者：
S. Gardiner
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作者：
S. Gardiner
气候变化可以说是人类面临的最大问题，但我们几乎没有采取什么行动来阻止这场迫在眉睫的灾难。在《完美的道德风暴》一书中，哲学家斯蒂芬·加德纳以全新的视角看待环境危机，认为它是一种道德上的失败，从而阐明了我们危险的不作为。加德纳澄清了道德状况，指出了使我们容易受到某种腐败的诱惑(或“风暴”)。首先，世界上最富裕的国家倾向于将气候变化的代价转嫁给世界上更贫穷、更虚弱的公民。其次，这一代人很容易把这个问题传给后代。第三，我们对科学、国际正义以及人类与自然的关系的糟糕理解，有助于促成无所作为。因此，当子孙后代、世界上的穷人，甚至地球上的基本生活结构都岌岌可危时，我们就是在故意自欺欺人。加德纳总结道，我们应该清醒地认识到这一深刻的道德失败，并对我们的机构、我们的领导人和我们自己提出更多要求。这是一本激进的书，无论是从它面对极端的意义上，还是从它的根源的意义上来说。“--巴黎圣母院哲学评论”这本书的优势在于加德纳成功地理解和澄清了气候变化引发的道德问题的类型，这是迈向解决方案的重要的第一步。--科学杂志“加德纳熟练地探索了一些非常本能和至关重要的考虑因素，这些因素在现实中不能被忽视。--必读。”--绿色先知“加德纳提出了一个强有力的理由，强调并坚持气候问题的伦理维度，他关于推卸责任和道德腐败的危险吸引力的警告击中了要害。《泰晤士报高等教育》斯蒂芬·加德纳将我们对气候变化道德层面的理解提升到了一个新的水平。完美的道德风暴令人信服地证明，气候变化是我们人类所面临的最大的道德挑战--这个问题比我们想象的还要严重。
Climate change is arguably the great problem confronting humanity, but we have done little to head off this looming catastrophe. In The Perfect Moral Storm, philosopher Stephen Gardiner illuminates our dangerous inaction by placing the environmental crisis in an entirely new light, considering it as an ethical failure. Gardiner clarifies the moral situation, identifying the temptations (or" storms") that make us vulnerable to a certain kind of corruption. First, the world's most affluent nations are tempted to pass on the cost of climate change to the poorer and weaker citizens of the world. Second, the present generation is tempted to pass the problem on to future generations. Third, our poor grasp of science, international justice, and the human relationship to nature helps to facilitate inaction. As a result, we are engaging in willful self-deception when the lives of future generations, the world's poor, and even the basic fabric of life on the planet is at stake. We should wake up to this profound ethical failure, Gardiner concludes, and demand more of our institutions, our leaders and ourselves." This is a radical book, both in the sense that it faces extremes and in the sense that it goes to the roots."--Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews" The book's strength lies in Gardiner's success at understanding and clarifying the types of moral issues that climate change raises, which is an important first step toward solutions."--Science Magazine" Gardiner has expertly explored some very instinctual and vitally important considerations which cannot realistically be ignored.--Required reading."--Green Prophet" Gardiner makes a strong case for highlighting and insisting on the ethical dimensions of the climate problem, and his warnings about buck-passing and the dangerous appeal of moral corruptions hit home."--Times Higher Education" Stephen Gardiner takes to a new level our understanding of the moral dimensions of climate change. A Perfect Moral Storm argues convincingly that climate change is the greatest moral challenge our species has ever faced-and that the problem goes even deeper than we think."--Peter Singer, Princeton University