What Should Individuals Do About Climate Change? - A Debate

Climate change is a pressing problem. Does each of us have a moral responsibility to help tackle it? In this volume, Marion Hourdequin and Dan Shahar debate the timely issue of individual behavior and climate change, examining what it takes to live morally in a warming world.

List of contents

Opening Statements 1. Opening Statement: Why Individual Emissions Matter - Marion Hourdequin 2. Opening Statement: Facing our Limits - Dan C. Shahar Replies 3. Reply to Shahar: The Pervasiveness of Climate Change Provides Reasons and Opportunities to Act - Marion Hourdequin 4. Reply to Hourdequin: Defending Specialization and Division of Moral Labor - Dan C. Shahar Concluding Statements 5. Closing Statement: Individual Actions Matter for Climate Change - Marion Hourdequin 6. Closing Statement: Embracing Diversity among Altruists - Dan C. Shahar

About the author

Marion Hourdequin is a Professor of Philosophy at Colorado College whose work focuses on environmental philosophy, climate ethics, and relational ethics. She is the author of Environmental Ethics: From Theory to Practice (2nd edition, 2024) and co-editor, with David Havlick, of Restoring Layered Landscapes (2016). She served as President of the International Society for Environmental Ethics from 2022 to 2024, and she is an Associate Editor for the journal Environmental Ethics.
Dan C. Shahar is MBA Program Director and a Teaching Assistant Professor at West Virginia University. His research explores the moral and political dimensions of humanity's relationship with the natural world. He is the author of Why It's OK to Eat Meat (Routledge, 2021), co-editor (with David Schmidtz) of Environmental Ethics: What Really Matters, What Really Works (3rd edition, 2018), and author of over a dozen journal articles and book chapters.
Allen Thompson is Associate Professor of Ethics and Environmental Philosophy at Oregon State University.

Product details

• Authors: Marion (Colorado College Hourdequin, Hourdequin Marion, Dan C. Shahar
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.06.2025
• EAN: 9780367704544
• ISBN: 978-0-367-70454-4
• No. of pages: 206
• Series: Little Debates about Big Questions
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Agriculture, horticulture; forestry, fishing, food; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / General, Climate Change, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / General, Ethics & moral philosophy, environmental science, engineering & technology, Ethics and moral philosophy, Agricultural science, Environmental policy & protocols, Environmental science, engineering and technology, Environmental policy and protocols