Climate, Cash and Conscience: Why the Ethics of Climate Change Is Complicated - Alistair Donald

A consensus has emerged that the only ethical response to today's widespread concern about the effects of climate change is for the world to move to net zero emissions of CO2 as quickly as possible, and for developed countries to make huge cash transfers to developing countries. Yet in the recent past, some well-intentioned policies which enjoyed consensus when first proposed have resulted in unforeseen negative consequences for the environment. Some of the measures now being proposed risk exacerbating rather than ameliorating poverty in both developing and developed countries. Responsible Christian stewardship may require rethinking these issues.

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Alistair Donald is a full-time Chaplain to Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland. He is a graduate of St Andrews University, and he then studied in Wales for a PhD in environmental science. Working for what is now the Environment Agency, he published research on acid rain and water pollution before moving back to Scotland as an environmental advisor to the former Scottish Office (now the Scottish Government). After training at New College for the Church of Scotland ministry, he served in a rural parish in Aberdeenshire for ten years before taking up his present post at Heriot-Watt in 2009. He has a long-standing interest in the relationship between the Christian faith and science. He is married to Nicky and they have 3 grown sons.

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