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1. According to Jamieson, there are several features of climate change that render the issues involved alien to our usual notions of commonsense morality. Discuss any two of them, explaining why they present such “hard’ issues. (100 wds.)

2. In thinking of ways to bring the harms of climate change within notions of commonsense morality, Jamieson discusses three possible methods of doing so. Ultimately he decides that only one of these even has any possibility of working. For that one possibility, he gives two theoretical strategies for accomplishing it, before concluding they might not work either. Briefly explain his reasoning regarding all this. (125 wds.)

3. Using both Jamieson and the article by Gardiner, explain which aspect of climate change both think is the hardest issue, and the prospects for using ethics to solve, or at least address, the issue. (100 wds.)

4. Jamieson notes several different ways of respecting nature. Explain each, and why he thinks we do (or should) respect nature in the first place. (100 wds.)

5. Jamieson notes a few reasons why the harms to nation-states associated with climate change don’t look like traditional injustice between states. He considers one of these to be the most serious. Describe all the reasons, but spend most of the word count to explain the most serious one. (100 wds.)

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Q1. According to Jamieson, there are several features of climate change that render the
issues involved alien to our usual notions of commonsense morality. Discuss any two of
them, explaining why they present such “hard’ issues.
From the interview between Gutting and Jamieson (2015), Jamieson says that it is
possible to make some reasonable predictions about broad regional impacts, but it is very
difficult to make those of specific or rather local regions. He says one of the major reason for this
is how hard it may be to translate global-scale probabilities into local cause and effect
relationships. Jamieson also said that it would be almost impossible to predict the impact of that
would be brought to the environment if human beings stopped a major climate impacting activity
such as the extraction and use of coal as fuel. He says that the reason behind this almost
impossible prediction is the overwhelming impact the use of the co...


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