Abstract: This chapter employs a thought experiment, the 2050 Zero-Carbon World Oration to take stock of the reality that even the most rapid and decisive climate change action is still likely to lead us to a world far more challenging than the planet on which human civilisations have developed and flourished. Looking back from 2050, this story is told through a fictional Oration delivered by Professor Teuila Apatu, Director of the Global Institute for Climate and Energy Transitions, reviewing the key events, decisions and actions which drove the great t...
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Environmental ethics