What should we save from Climate Change?
One of the significant questions we must ask ourselves at this time (though many decades ago would have been even better) is what should we save from Climate Change ? (Of course, for ethical reasons we cannot ask ((even in the darkest regions of our mind)) who should we save from Climate Change? No matter how drastic Climate Change becomes, I cannot imagine a point at which we would seriously contemplate a “ Lifeboat Ethics ” situation, where we save some but not others.) We should save everyone from Climate Change, especially people in the future. Before I talk about what we should save from Climate Change, we should acknowledge that to even pose such a question is to recognize there is now enough widespread awareness that Climate Change is occurring on a scale and time frame that makes this question possible. It would have been considered highly speculative to bring this question up twenty years ago but now people are acting on this: Saving Scotland’s Heritage From the Rising Seas ...