"Moral Complexities in Choices about Global Warming"

[clement]

BAD HURRICANES AND RISING SEA LEVELS:
Moral Complexities in Global Warming and Global Choices
Public Lecture by Prof. Donald J. Munro
http://phil.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/philosophy.php?page_id=98

Full Text in PDF:
http://phil.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/%7Ephidept/munro/hurricanes.pdf

今天出席了這個公開講座，講者孟旦教授談到如何從人的價值的角度去回應全球環境問題。孟旦認為基於倫理價值的論點比基於經濟學成本／利益模式的論點來得有效力。他提及三種倫理價值：一、所有人類的相等價值（equal worth of all humans）；二、基於合作的相互性（reciprocity）；三、我們能夠愛大自然的能力（capacity for love of nature）。雖然孟旦的論點是帶有演化論心理學的背景，但當中所涉及的某些關於人的價值的論點，相信對於基督徒思考基督教倫理與商業問題乃至全球環境問題的關係有參考價值。

[Daniel_Cheung]

"In this lecture I suggest that people who are serious about slowing global warming should make the moral arguments for going the road of the new coal technology. This has not been done loudly and clearly. Indeed, when General Electric started its clean coal program is 2005, its Chairman and CEO said that he was initiating the program, “not because it is trendy or moral, but because it will accelerate [economic growth].”3 That is exactly the style of half-way justifications that I wish to reject as incomplete. The moral justification, based on the consequence of global warming for the equal worth of the lives of all people today and the health of future generations, gives the strongest additional support that advocacy can find."

是的，有些倫理問題是會與經濟考慮有衝突的。