The Environmental Impact of Overpopulation: The Ethics of Procreation - Rilegato

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Hedberg, Trevor

 
9781138489752: The Environmental Impact of Overpopulation: The Ethics of Procreation
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ISBN 10: 1138489751 ISBN 13: 9781138489752
Casa editrice: Routledge, 2020

Sinossi

This book examines the link between population growth and environmental impact and explores the implications of this connection for the ethics of procreation.

In light of climate change, species extinctions, and other looming environmental crises, Trevor Hedberg argues that we have a collective moral duty to halt population growth to prevent environmental harms from escalating. This book assesses a variety of policies that could help us meet this moral duty, confronts the conflict between protecting the welfare of future people and upholding procreative freedom, evaluates the ethical dimensions of individual procreative decisions, and sketches the implications of population growth for issues like abortion and immigration. It is not a book of tidy solutions: Hedberg highlights some scenarios where nothing we can do will enable us to avoid treating some people unjustly. In such scenarios, the overall objective is to determine which of our available options will minimize the injustice that occurs.

This book will be of great interest to those studying environmental ethics, environmental policy, climate change, sustainability, and population policy.

Chapter 5 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Trevor Hedberg is a postdoctoral scholar at The Ohio State University, USA, jointly affiliated with the College of Pharmacy and the Center for Ethics and Human Values.

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Editore
Routledge
Data di pubblicazione
2020
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1138489751
ISBN 13 
9781138489752
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
192
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
non disponibile

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9781032236766: The Environmental Impact of Overpopulation: The Ethics of Procreation

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ISBN 10:  1032236760 ISBN 13:  9781032236766
Casa editrice: Routledge, 2021
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