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    Climate Justice

    What Rich Nations Owe the World—and the Future

    Author Cass R. Sunstein On Tour
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    The MIT Press
    On sale Mar 03, 2026 | 216 Pages | 9780262053976
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    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.
    Introduction vii
    1 Climate Change Cosmopolitanism 1
    2 Rich Nations, Poor Nations 39
    3 Future Generations 63
    4 Valuing Life: Who Wins, Who Loses? 85
    5 Adaptation 97
    6 Consumers 105
    Epilogue: Theory and Practice 125
    Acknowledgments 129
    Appendix: The Paris Agreement 131
    Notes 157
    Index 177
    Cass R. Sunstein is Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard University, where he is the cofounder and codirector of the Initiative on Artificial Intelligence and the Law. Former Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, he is the author of The Cost-Benefit Revolution, How Change Happens, Too Much Information, Sludge, Nudge (with Richard H. Thaler), and other books.
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    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.

    Table of Contents

    Introduction vii
    1 Climate Change Cosmopolitanism 1
    2 Rich Nations, Poor Nations 39
    3 Future Generations 63
    4 Valuing Life: Who Wins, Who Loses? 85
    5 Adaptation 97
    6 Consumers 105
    Epilogue: Theory and Practice 125
    Acknowledgments 129
    Appendix: The Paris Agreement 131
    Notes 157
    Index 177

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    Cass R. Sunstein is Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard University, where he is the cofounder and codirector of the Initiative on Artificial Intelligence and the Law. Former Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, he is the author of The Cost-Benefit Revolution, How Change Happens, Too Much Information, Sludge, Nudge (with Richard H. Thaler), and other books.
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