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16. Domänen der Klimaethik, ein neuer Blick – Domains of Climate Ethics Revisited

verfasst von : Konrad Ott

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Die Klimaethik ist zu einem wichtigen Gebiet innerhalb der angewandten Ethik geworden. Sie ist nicht nur ein Unterthema der Umweltethik, sondern hat ihr eigenes moralisches und ethisches Profil. Mittlerweile behandelt die Klimaethik nicht mehr nur die CO_2-Mitigation und Belange künftiger Generationen, sondern hat sich auf die Themen Anpassungsfinanzierung, Climate Engineering, Lastenaufteilung und Verteilungsgerechtigkeit ausgeweitet. Diese Artikel fast die jüngsten Entwicklungen auf dem Gebiet der Klimaethik zusammen und unterbreitet kohärente Maßstäbe zur Orientierung innerhalb der verschiedenen Domänen der Klimaethik.

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Authors who have contributed to the emergence of CE are, among others, Henry Shue, John Broome, Steve Gardiner, Aubrey Meyer, Donald Brown, Edward Page, Michael Northcott, Simon Caney, Marco Grasso, Christoph Lumer, and Christian Baatz. Essential articles are collected in Gardiner et al. (2010).

The idea to distinguish different domains is taken from Grasso (2007).

GHG concentrations can be defined in terms of CO₂ only or in terms of all GHG which are calculated in CO₂-equivalents (CO₂-eq). In the following, I adopt the CO₂-equivalents numbers.

Ocean as carbon sinks, albedo change, cloud cover, precipitation patterns, thermohaline circulation, stability of cryosphere, ‘tipping points’ etc.

Mass extinction of species is not exclusively triggered by climate change, but also by agriculture, deforestation, loss of habitat, neobiota, and hunting.

Ott (2004), the famous future-individual paradox was outlined in Parfit (1983). Parfit himself downplayed the role of the paradox for long-term policymaking.

See Schröder et al. (2002), 417 with further references.

Nordhaus (1994). Lomborg uncritically relied on Nordhaus’ calculations in his “Skeptical Environmentalist” (2001).

Gernot Klepper, Ulrich Hampicke, Peter Michaelis, Ottmar Edenhofer, Martin Quaas, to name but a few German economists.

Cf. the contributions in Hampicke and Ott (2003).

The problems of EA increase if not only mitigation but adaptation and climate-engineering are addressed, too. If EA can’t calculate the efficient solution for mitigation policies only it can’t calculate a fortiori the efficient solution in the triangular affair in between mitigation, adaptation, and modes of climate-engineering. To determine the ‘efficient’ solution of mitigation, adaptation, and climate-engineering in a global welfare function over a century is, at best, an utopian ideal and, at worst, a misleading, dangerous, and chimerical myth.

At least with respect to environmental problems SPA has several advantages over EA since it is hard to see how the ‘efficient’ pollution of air, rivers, and marine systems or the ‘efficient’ number of species on planet Earth might be calculated.

This objective has three normative constraints which I must leave aside here.

If one takes a closer look on the recent literature from religion-based ethics this convergence broadens.

Climate sensitivity is defined as increase in GMT at a CO2-level of 560 ppmv (twice than preindustrial CO2)

Betz (2009) claims that the IPCC methodology of modal verificationism by which climate sensitivity is determined should be replaced by modal falsificationism. If so, there will be more reasons for concern and precaution.

Grandfathering, basic needs, Rawlsian difference principles, proportionality, per-capita schemes.

I changed my mind on this ontological-economic concept several times. Meanwhile, this assumption seems not as flawed as Baatz and Ott (2017a, b) argued. This assumption needs more refinement.

This approach should be based on a benchmark to avoid incentives for pro-natalistic population policies. It is highly doubtful whether restrictive population policies, as in China, can be regarded as ‘early action’ in mitigation policies.

How deep are Arab countries indebted to Sub-Saharan Africa since there was slave trade over centuries before the Europeans took part in slave trade?

Arguments in favor of the beneficiary account are given by Gosseries (2004) and Caney (2006).

My parents were ignorant about climate change and simply enjoyed cars and family holidays in the prosperous Western Germany between 1965 and 1990.

This section is deeply indebted to Christian Baatz and Michel Bourban. See Baatz (2013).

The concept of adaptation must be secured against biological definitions of adaptation of organisms to a hostile environment. If not, adaptation to climate change might be seen as an instance of survival of the fittest.

A conceptual framework on adaptation strategies is given by Smit et al. (2000).

Germany has already adopted a national adaptation plan.

It should be asked whether such assistance should be additional to ordinary development aid (ODA) as most NGO’s suppose. This problem is not addressed here since such debate relies on assumption of how good or bad the 100 billion $ ODA are spent each year. It remains doubtful whether strict emission reduction (80–90% compared to a 1990 benchmark), doubling of ODA (0.7% GDP), and additional burdens for adaptation funding gradually become somewhat over-demanding even to rich societies that have to deal with many other problems than just climate change.

See Seitz (2018) and Menzel (1992) for critical overviews.

This 100-billion-$-number does not entail costs for provision and resettlement of displaced persons which is a hard special case of adaptation. The case for climate-induced displaced persons is beyond the scope of this article (see Ott and Riemann 2018).

Distributing migrants onto EU-countries seems a fair analogy.

Sometimes it is added that the problem of global cooperation in mitigation of GHG can be easily turned into a technological joint effort problem.

Baer et al. (2008). See also the homepage of www.ecoequity.org.

The charming idea that rich persons in poor countries should contribute to mitigation and adaptation efforts is not at the heart of the GDR-concept.

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Titel: Domänen der Klimaethik, ein neuer Blick – Domains of Climate Ethics Revisited
verfasst von: Konrad Ott
Verlag: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
Buch: Ethik in den Ingenieurwissenschaften
Print ISBN: 978-3-658-29475-5

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-658-29476-2

Copyright-Jahr: 2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-29476-2_16

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