Ethics and Climate Change Lecture Series

Spring 2009

Feb

MARTIN BUNZL

Them and US: Reflections on Carbon Output in the Developing World

Feb

Robert O. Keohane

Evaluating Climate Change Institutions: Justice or Legitimacy?

Mar

Daniel Schrag

Engineering Our Way Out of a Climate Catastrophe

Apr

David Schlosberg

Climate Justice and the Capabilities Approach: The Flourishing of Human and Non-Human Communities

Apr

robyn eckersley

The Ethics of Carbon Trading

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Daniel Schrag

Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University

Engineering Our Way Out of a Climate Catastrophe

Tuesday, March 3, 2009 4:30-6 PM Betts Auditorium, Architecture Building

Discussant: Dale Jamieson, Environmental Studies Program, New York University

Speaker Biography

Professor Daniel Schrag studies climate and climate change over the broadest range of Earth history. He has examined changes in ocean circulation over the last several decades, with particular attention to El Niño and the tropical Pacific. He has worked on theories for Pleistocene ice-age cycles including a better determination of ocean temperatures during the Last Glacial Maximum, 20,000 years ago.

Dan also helped develop the Snowball Earth hypothesis, proposing that a series of global glaciations occurred between 750 and 580 million years ago that may have led to the evolution of multicellular animals. Currently he is working with economists and engineers on technological approaches to mitigating future climate change.

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Discussant Biography

Dale Jamieson is Director of Environmental Studies at New York University, where he is also Professor of Environmental Studies and Philosophy, and Affiliated Professor of Law. Dr. Jamieson is the author of Ethics and the Environment: An Introduction (Cambridge, 2008), and Morality's Progress: Essays on Humans, Other Animals, and the Rest of Nature (Oxford, 2002). He is also the editor or co-editor of seven books, most recently A Companion to Environmental Philosophy (Blackwell, 2001), and the forthcoming Climate Ethics (with Steve Gardiner, Simon Caney, and Henry Shue). He has published nearly one hundred articles and book chapters, and is also the co-author of a major report to the US Environmental Protection Agency, Cultural Barriers to Behavioral Change: General Recommendations and Resources for State Pollution Prevention Programs. He is currently writing a book on the moral and political challenges of climate change, a topic on which he has worked for more than twenty-five years.

Speaker Biography

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