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AUTHOR
Gianfranco Pellegrino
La Terra reinventata. Etica dell’ambiente e Antropocene
Reinventing Earth. Environmental Ethics and Anthropocene This article considers two issues concerning Anthropocene – first, Anthropocene as a puzzling notion, second, the possibilty of an environmental ethics of the Anthropocene. Definitions, narratives of, and reactions to Anthropocene are presented in paragraph 2. A view of the value of hybrid nature in Anthropocene is sketched in paragraph 3.
Sospensione riproduttiva temporanea: etica delle popolazioni e cambiamento climatico
The article defends a proposal of demographic self-limitation that should be realized by the citizens of industrialized countries as a contribution to the reduction of global emissions, for the benefit of future generations and emerging countries. It will also argue that many of the practical objections to the feasibility of this kind of voluntary choice are surmountable, as are some moral objections raised in the name of reproductive freedom and the value of future lives that would not be lived as a result of this choice.
The Climatic Challenge to Global Justice
How should we think of justice when the evil we can do to one another is not visible nor immediate, but rather impalpable and causally, spatially and temporally dispersed? What does justice demand, when our actions and institutions do not directly sabotage the life prospects of others but rather do so derivatively, by sabotaging the very eco-systems in which such lives are or will be lived? In a globalized, resource-depleted, overpopulated, rapidly changing, ecologically deteriorating world, what is owed to the billions of spatiotemporally distant people who are paying or shall pay the costs of the last 200 years of heavy industry, globalized trade and enthusiastic economic growth? And is t…