Feminist Perspectives on Global Warming, Genocide, and Card's Theory of Evil

This essay explores several moral issues raised by global warming through the lens of Claudia Card's theory of evil. I focus on Alaskan villages in the sub-Arctic whose residents must relocate owing to extreme erosion, melting sea ice, and rising water levels. I use Card's discussion of ge...

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Published in:Hypatia 2009, Vol.24 (1), p.160-177
Main Author: DAVION, VICTORIA
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Card, Claudia
Climate Change
Cultural genocide
Cultural identity
Death Attitudes
Evil
Feminism
Fetus
Genocide
Global warming
Good & evil
Killing
Mass murder
Morality
Theory
Villages
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Summary:This essay explores several moral issues raised by global warming through the lens of Claudia Card's theory of evil. I focus on Alaskan villages in the sub-Arctic whose residents must relocate owing to extreme erosion, melting sea ice, and rising water levels. I use Card's discussion of genocide as social death to argue that failure to help these groups maintain their unique cultural identities can be thought of as genocidal.
ISSN:0887-5367
1527-2001
DOI:10.1111/j.1527-2001.2009.00012.x