Health toll of climate change seen as ethical crisis

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The two world maps schematically represent the contribution of different nations to global warming as measured in atmospheric carbon output (top) and the health effects of global warming as measured in mortality for diseases and other effects of a wa ...
The two world maps schematically represent the contribution of different nations to global warming, as measured in atmospheric carbon output (top) and the health effects of global warming as measured in mortality for diseases and other effects of a warming world climate (bottom). The effort to compare and contrast such measures is one way to illustrate the ethical dimensions of global climate change.

The public health costs of global climate change are likely to be the greatest in those parts of the world that have contributed least to the problem, posing a significant ethical dilemma for the developed world, according to a new study.


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