The Greenhouse A Welfare Assessment and Some

In The Greenhouse, Christoph Lumer provides moral evaluations of the greenhouse effect and of some of its alternatives, from utilitarian and welfarist perspectives.

List of Tables

v

Preface

vii

Aims of this Study

1

(8)

Notes to Chapter 1

5

(4)

Methodology of the Welfare Inquiry in this Study

9

(12)

The Steps of the Inquiry

9

(2)

A Very Short Defense of Rational Hedonism

11

(10)

Notes to Chapter 2

19

(2)

Alternative a1: Business as Usual

21

(32)

General Features of a1

21

(2)

Direct Losses in Well-Being: 1. Casualties

23

(3)

Insertion: Methods of Hedonistically Measuring Personal Gains and Losses

26

(6)

Direct Losses in Well-Being: 2. Injuries, Diseases, Directly Caused Psychic Suffering

32

(3)

Economic Losses and Their Influence on Well-Being

35

(18)

Economic Losses

35

(5)

Welfarizing Individually Borne Economic Losses

40

(3)

Welfarizing Social Economic Costs

43

(3)

Sparing Parts of the Welfarization: Principles of Cost-Welfare Analysis

46

(1)

Other Damages and Integration of Reductions in Well-Being

47

(2)

Notes to Chapter 3

49

(4)

Alternatives a2-a4: Abatement Options

53

(12)

Characterizing the Alternatives

53

(1)

Monetary Abatement Costs

53

(6)

Non-Monetary Abatement Costs

59

(1)

Costs Due to a Moderated Greenhouse Effect

60

(1)

Integration of Damages

60

(5)

Notes to Chapter 4

60

(5)

The Moral Point(s) of View

65

(20)

Moral Evaluation of the Alternatives

65

(15)

Cost-Welfare Analysis of the Abatement Options

80

(5)

Notes to Chapter 5

83

(2)

From Moral Valuation to Moral Obligation - 1. The Conception of a Historical Morality

85

(14)

Problems of Conventional Ethics and of Rigorous Moral Postulates

85

(3)

Motivational Justification of Moral Desirability Functions - Sympathy and Its Range

88

(4)

Sense and Range of the Universality of Morals

92

(1)

Bindingness and Limits of Morals - Social Implementation and Historization of Morals

93

(2)

Applying the Solution of the Overtaxing Problem: Efficiency of Moral Action versus Temporal Discounting

95

(4)

Notes to Chapter 6

97

(2)

From Moral Valuation to Moral Obligation - 2. Application to the Greenhouse Effect

99

(6)

The Problem of Possibly Better Alternatives

99

(4)

Moral Duties with Respect to the Greenhouse Effect

103

(2)

Notes to Chapter 7

104

(1)

References

105

(6)

Index

111

(6)

About the Author

117

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