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The Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by moving the international community to take measures preventing dangerous manmade interference with the climate system.Since its publication in 1997 the Kyoto Protocol has triggered heated debates amongst scientists and politicians. According to a number of critics the questions as to whether global warming is caused by human intervention and whether taking appropriate measures could reduce the trend have not yet been conclusively established. Up until February 2005 this dispute has delayed the Kyoto Protocol from becoming legally binding in a limited number of countries.However if the predictions are accurate measures have to be taken to prevent a global catastrophe. Which leads to another much overlooked but no less important question namely how mankind can be motivated to accept the burden attached to the measures proposed by the Kyoto Protocol in other words how do we find and formulate an ethical basis for measures forcing us to sacrifice some of our wealth and riches for a cleaner more sustainable world?This inspiring collection of articles sometimes unanimous sometimes in disagreement provide by their very diversity an excellent basis for further discussion and scrutiny of important questions that will concern us for many years to come. Contributors include internationally known philosophers researchers and environmentalists.This inspiring collection of articles sometimes unanimous sometimes in disagreement provide by their very diversity an excellent basis for further discussion and scrutiny of important questions that will concern us for many years to come. Contributors include internationally known philosophers researchers and environmentalists. «
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