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Gardiner: Why Does Gardiner think that climate change is a "perfect moral storm"? What are the features of each "storm"? WHat is the significance of it being a perfect moral storm? What is a tragedy of the commons problem? Why is the "pure intergenerational problem" even worse? What is the main point of Gardiner's analysis? Is he optimistic or pessimistic about humanity's response to climate change?

http://ww.hettingern.people.cofc.edu/Environmental_Philosophy_Sp_09/Gardner_Perfect_Moral_Storm.pdf

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Gardiner thinks of climate change as a ''perfect moral storm'' because,the climate change involves the convergence of of a set of global,integrational and theoretical problems and this convergence justifies it to be called 'a perfect moral storm'.

The features of each storm are:-

1)The Global storm: The important characteristics of climate change problem are dispersion causes and effects , fragmentation of agency and institutional inadequacy.Since,these characteristics manifests themselves in two specially salient dimensions ,the spatial and temporal. Global storm emerges from the spatial reading of the these characteristics.

2)The Intergenerational storm : this storm is related to the temporal characteristics of the climate change problem,that are stated above.It defines the effects of climate change that comes from the concentration of pollutant gases in the atmosphere over a long period of time.

3)The Theoretical storm is defined by the author as the current state of incompetence of our theories and level of preparation to deal with the issues arising the climate change in future.

The significance of being a perfect moral storm are that the,all the storms that are stated above are related to our own moral conducts.If we do not think that our own actions are open to moral assessment or various interests then ,it is hard to see ,why climate change poses a problem.

The tragedy of commons problem is essentially a Prisoner's dilemma,as described by Garrett Hardin,which is a dilemma involving a common resource. The climate change is a global issue and is a mutual problem of all masses.

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