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GREAT BOOKS 23:

Climate Change: Are We Really all in This Together?

What kind of problem is Climate Change really?

“Falling in with climate modelers is like falling in with people who do Tai-Chi.”

A generation of young people are ready for swift and sufficient action on climate change. Are their parents and grandparents morally obligated to listen? In a conversation with Uli Baer, Dale Jamieson, a professor of Environmental Studies and Philosophy at the NYU School of Law explains the morality of fighting for change when we are not directly impacted.

Activists call climate change an “existential threat”. What does that mean? And who are the winners and losers of climate change? 

Climate change while rooted in science is first a political problem, a philosophical problem and at its core a moral problem. 

Jamieson explores this in his new book, Discerning Experts