John Broome, Climate Matters: Ethics in a Warming World, Norton (2012)

Derek Parfit, Reasons and Persons, Oxford UP (1984)

1. William Nordhaus, The Ethics of Efficient Markets and Commons Tragedies: A Review of John Broome's Climate Matters, Journal of Economic Literature (2014)

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John Broome, chapters 4 and 5 of Climate Matters, Norton (2012)

Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, “It’s Not My Fault: Global Warming and Individual Moral Obligations”, in Gardiner et. al. eds. Climate Ethics, Oxford UP (2010)

Julia Nefsky, "Climate Change and Inefficacy: A Dilemma for the Expected Utility Approach, and The Need for an Imperfect View", in Budolfson, McPherson, and Plunkett eds. Climate Change and Philosophy, Oxford UP (forthcoming)

1. John Broome, chapter 3 of Climate Matters, Norton (2012)

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Carbon Pricing 101, Resources for the Future

William Nordhaus, A Question of Balance, Yale UP (2007)

History of global economic inequality, and some of its important consequences for today, from ourworldindata.org

1. John Broome, chapter 6 of Climate Matters, Norton (2012)

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Francis Dennig et al. Inequality, climate impacts on the future poor, and carbon prices, PNAS (2015)

William Nordhaus, DICE 2016 model

Matthew Adler, Measuring Social Welfare, Oxford UP (2019)

1. John Broome, chapter 7 of Climate Matters, Norton (2012)

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Stephen Gardiner, A Core Precautionary Principle, Journal of Political Philosophy (2006)

Lara Buchak, Weighing the Risks of Climate Change, The Monist (2019)

1. John Broome, chapter 8 of Climate Matters, Norton (2012)

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Ken Arrow, Discounting, Morality, and Gaming, in Portney and Weyant eds., Discounting and Intergenerational Equity, Resources for the Future (1999)

Hilary Greaves, Discounting for Public Policy: A Survey, Economics and Philosophy (2017)

1. John Broome, chapter 9 of Climate Matters, Norton (2012)

2. Excel worksheet on utilitarianism and different monetizations of deaths for rich vs. poor

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ABC discussion of COVID-19, with some discussion of tradeoffs between lives and financial wealth

Cass Sunstein, intro and chapters 2-5 of Valuing Life, U Chicago Press (2014)

John Broome, Weighing Lives, Oxford UP (2004)

1. John Broome, chapter 10 of Climate Matters, Norton (2012)

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Aurélie Méjean, Antonin Pottier, Stéphane Zuber, and Marc Fleurbaey, Intergenerational equity under catastrophic climate change (working paper)

1. Derek Parfit, pp. 351-390 of Reasons and Persons, Oxford UP (1984)

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Melinda Roberts, The Nonidentity Problem, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2009,2019)

Gustaf Arrhenius, An impossibility theorem for welfarist axiologies, Economics and Philosophy (2000)

Gustaf Arrhenius, Mark Budolfson, and Dean Spears, Does Climate Change Policy Depend Importantly on Population Ethics? Deflationary Responses to the Challenges of Population Ethics for Public Policy, in Budolfson, Plunkett, and McPherson eds., Climate Change and Philosophy, Oxford UP (forthcoming)

1. Derek Parfit, pp. 390-454 of Reasons and Persons, Oxford UP (1984)

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Mark Budolfson and Dean Spears, Why the repugnant conclusion is inescapable, working paper

Hilary Greaves, Population Axiology, Philosophy Compass (2017)

1. John Broome, Efficiency and Future Generations, Economics and Philosophy (2018)

2. Michal Masny, section VI.3 (ie only pp. 131-133) of On Parfit's Wide Dual Person-Affecting Principle, Philosophical Quarterly (2019)

1. Lara Buchak, Weighing the Risks of Climate Change, The Monist (2019)

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Lara Buchak, Taking Risks Behind the Veil of Ignorance, Ethics (2017)

Lara Buchak, Why high-risk, non-expected-utility-maximizing gambles can be rational and beneficial: The case of HIV cure studies, Journal of Medical Ethics (2016)

David Archer, The Long Thaw: How Humans are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth's Climate, Princeton UP (2016)

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), "Technical Summary [of the Physical Science Basis]", in Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis, Cambridge UP (2013)

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), "Technical Summary [of Impacts]", in Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability, Cambridge UP (2014)

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), "Technical Summary [of Mitigation]", in Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change, Cambridge UP (2014)

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), discussion of cobenefits, Section 11.9 of Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability, Cambridge UP (2014)

David Archer and Stefan Rahmstorf, selection on "The Band Saturation Effect", in The Climate Crisis, Cambridge UP (2010)

Historical Temperature Change Video from berkeleyearth.org

United Nations, Introduction to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) (1992)

United Nations, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (1992)

Climate Equity Reference Project

Gardiner, Caney, Jamieson, and Shue eds. Climate Ethics, Oxford UP (2010)

Budolfson, McPherson, Plunkett eds., Climate Change and Philosophy, Oxford UP (forthcoming)

Other ethics and climate change monographs and anthologies: