Anthropogenic climate change poses increasingly severe long‐term threats to living things worldwide. It may even contribute to a mass extinction that would leave biodiversity depleted for millions of years—quite possibly longer than the duration of the human species. Such effects are obviously of ethical concern, but because traditional ethical theories have focused on the relatively short‐term interests of human beings, they offer little guidance. In the late 20th century, a growing number of ethical activists and theorists sought to expand moral consideration to nonhuman animals and to the diverse life forms and habitats of wild nature. Simultaneously and at first independently, others began to develop long‐term (sometimes called “intergenerational”) ethics, which extends moral consideration into the distant future. Concerns about future climate change quickly became a central focus of this work. But only in this century have there been concerted efforts to integrate these lines of thought into far‐sighted nonanthropocentric climate ethics. These efforts are the subject of this review.This article is categorized under: Climate, Nature, and Ethics > Ethics and Climate Change Integrated Assessment of Climate Change > Assessing Climate Change in the Context of Other Issues Climate, Nature, and Ethics > Comparative Environmental Values

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非人类中心的气候伦理


人为气候变化对全世界生物构成日益严重的长期威胁。它甚至可能导致大规模灭绝，导致生物多样性枯竭数百万年——很可能比人类存在的时间还要长。这种影响显然值得伦理关注，但由于传统伦理理论关注的是人类相对短期的利益，因此提供的指导意义不大。 20 世纪末，越来越多的伦理活动家和理论家试图将道德考虑扩展到非人类动物以及野生自然的多样化生命形式和栖息地。与此同时，其他人开始独立地发展长期（有时称为“代际”）道德，将道德考虑延伸到遥远的未来。对未来气候变化的担忧很快成为这项工作的中心焦点。但直到本世纪，人们才齐心协力将这些思想融入有远见的非人类中心气候伦理学中。这些努力是本次审查的主题。本文分类如下： 气候、自然和伦理 > 伦理与气候变化 气候变化综合评估 > 在其他问题的背景下评估气候变化 气候、自然和伦理 % 3E 比较环境价值