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Toward a small family ethic : how overpopulation and climate change are affecting the morality of procreation / Travis N. Rieder.
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Rieder, Travis N.
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Book
Language
English
Published/Created
[Cham] : Springer, [2016]
Description
x, 68 pages ; 24 cm
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Stokes Library - Wallace Hall (SPR)
HQ766.15 .R54 2016
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Human reproduction
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Moral and ethical aspects
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Family size
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Moral and ethical aspects
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SpringerBriefs in public health
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SpringerBriefs in public health. Ethics
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SpringerBriefs in public health, 2192-3698. Ethics
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Summary note
This thought-provoking treatise argues that current human fertility rates are fueling a public health crisis that is at once local and global. Its analysis and data summarize the ecological costs of having children, presenting ethical dilemmas for prospective parents in an era of competition for scarce resources, huge disparities of wealth and poverty, and unsustainable practices putting irreparable stress on the planet. Questions of individual responsibility and integrity as well as personal moral and procreative issues are examined carefully against larger and more long-range concerns. The authorℓ́ℓs assertion that even modest efforts toward reducing global fertility rates would help curb carbon emissions, slow rising global temperatures, and forestall large-scale climate disaster is well reasoned and more than plausible. Among the topics covered: ℗ʺ The multiplier effect: food, water, energy, and climate. ℗ʺ The role of population in mitigating climate change. ℗ʺ The carbon legacy of procreation. ℗ʺ Obligations to our possible children. ℗ʺ Rights, what is right, and the right to do wrong. ℗ʺ The moral burden to have small families. Toward a Small Family Ethic sounds a clarion call for bioethics students and working bioethicists. This brief, thought-rich volume steers readers toward challenges that need to be met, and consequences that will need to be addressed if they are not.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Global Population Crisis
The Collective Action Problem
Duties to Possible Children
Duty Not to (Contribute to) Harm
Duties of Justice
Duties of Rescue
Demandingness, Integrity and Morality
Duty and Intimacy
Conclusion.
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ISBN
9783319338699 ((paperback))
3319338692 ((paperback))
3319338714
9783319338712
LCCN
2016941751
OCLC
945949404
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