This paper is about a certain kind of insensitivity (to people and, by extension to ecosystems) that ethical deliberation and theorizing produce when faced with the complexity that climate change scenarios present. In the first part of the paper, I examine the insensitivity to this complexity of traditional moral frameworks when prescribing courses of action. In the. second, I attempt to sketch an approach to ethical deliberation that better handles and sensitizes us to the complex concerns that arise in such situations, referring to an interdisciplinary research project, Institutional Adaptations to Climate Change, as a way to illustrate how this ethic would work. Given the nature of the paper, the position I take is more programmatic than substantive.
Morito, B
Ethics of Climate Change: Adopting an Empirical Approach to Moral Concern
Human Ecology Review