Chapter 2: The Rationale for International Action on Climate Change

Recommended materials

Cass R. Sunstein, “On the Divergent American Reactions to Terrorism and Climate Change” (2007) 107:2 Columbia Law Review 503

Henry Shue, “Subsistence Emissions and Luxury Emissions” (1993) 15:1 Law & Policy 39

Reto Knutti et al., “A scientific critique of the two-degree climate change target” (2016) 9 Nature Geoscience 13

Supplementary materials

Fergus Green, “Anti-fossil fuel norms” (2018) Climatic Change (forthcoming)

Stephen Gardiner & David A. Weisbach, Debating Climate Ethics (Oxford University Press, 2016)

Latest materials

Darrick Evensen, “The rhetorical limitations of #FridaysForFuture movement

(2019) Nature Climate Change,  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-019-0481-1   "The students striking for action on climate change admirably display civic engagement on a pressing issue. Nevertheless, their movement’s message focuses far too heavily on the need to ‘listen to science’, which is at most a point of departure for answering the ethical and political questions central to climate action."

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Looking past the horizon of 2100

"Long-term climate dynamics and impacts from sea level rise to heat stress make the case for much stronger mitigation efforts today" By Sonja van Renssen, in (2019) 9 Nature Climate Change 349-351 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-019-0466-0  

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In the news

“Shutdown of US coal power facilities saved over 26,000 lives, study finds”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/06/coal-power-pollution-gas-saved-lives-study  

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“Ocean temperatures hit record high as rate of heating accelerates” (Guardian)

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/13/ocean-temperatures-hit-record-high-as-rate-of-heating-accelerates  

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Neil Irwin, “Climate Change’s Giant Impact on the Economy: 4 Key Issues”

The New York Times, 17 January 2019 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/17/upshot/how-to-think-about-the-costs-of-climate-change.html

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