Darrel Moellendorf, "Mobilizing Hope: Climate Change and Global Poverty" (Oxford UP, 2022)
New Books in Philosophy
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The Uncertainty Objection and the Priority of Global Poverty Eradication
The 1.5 degree warming limit goal appears in the Paris agreement of 2015 but it's there as a result of pressure from civil society and small island states who see climate change as an existential threat. There are two objections to this qua aim, the two objection to the idea that they should be a claim for this. You call them the uncertainty objection and the priority of global poverty eradication objection.
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