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Ethical Issues Entailed By Economic Arguments Against Climate Change Policies.

Brown, Donald
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Brown, Donald
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economic arguments, fuel costs, decrease GDP, destroy jobs
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Economic ethics
Environmental ethics
Ethics of economic systems
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Climate Ethics
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Most arguments against climate change policies are short-term economic arguments of various types that almost always raise serious ethical problems. The following article by guest blogger Nicholas Krause is one in a series of Climate Ethics posts that look at ethical issues raised by economic arguments againts climate change policies. This post looks at three specific economic arguments that are frequently made against climate change policies and identifies ethical isues raised by these arguments. These arguments are climate change policies should be opposed because they: (a) increase fuel costs, (b) decrease GDP, and (c) destroy jobs.
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2011
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