Climate Justice: What Rich Nations Owe the World--And the Future

By Cass R. Sunstein

Book Overview

The social cost of carbon: The most important number you've never heard of--and what it means.

If you're injuring someone, you should stop--and pay for the damage you've caused. Why does this simple proposition, generally accepted, not apply to climate change? In Climate Justice, a bracing challenge to status quo thinking on the ethics of climate change, renowned author and legal scholar Cass Sunstein clearly frames what's at stake and lays out the moral imperative: When it comes to climate change, everyone must be counted equally, regardless of when they live or where they live--which means that wealthy nations, which have disproportionately benefited from greenhouse gas emissions, are obliged to help future generations and people in poor nations that are particularly vulnerable.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262053977
• ISBN13: 9780262053976
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.7"