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Climate change poses one of the most serious challenges for humanity due to the increasing complexity of both factual and ethical dimensions. Although the debate over climate change is usually framed as a debate about scientific facts, climate change is also fundamentally an ethical issue; the challenges that climate change poses cannot be addressed simply by accumulating more factual knowledge since it also refers to the meaning we make out of the world and the values we identify as important. Among climate ethicists, there are no doubts that even in the face of uncertainty regarding the severity, scope, and form of climate change impacts, the moral problems it poses are real. For example, future generations are subjected to severe harms and risk, and there exists a great deal of conflict in international climate negotiations. There is general agreement that actions undertaken to deal with the problem of global climate change are not sufficient. Addressing climate issues is usually conceived in terms of political decision making, with adaptation and mitigation as the primary goals. The fact of scientific uncertainty regarding the severity and scope of the problem fuels general disagreement about the appropriate actions to undertake. As a result, the persistent tendency to polarize the discourse often undermines the moral importance of human action, especially that which relates to the global commons and future generations. A notable element of climate change is the fact that both benefits and harms are immensely disaggregated: the climate change problem is caused by people concentrated in one part of the globe who benefit from actions that induce environmental harms (mostly in economic terms), whereas the people most vulnerable to the effects of climate change are isolated both spatially (mostly in the South) and temporally (future generations). This feature of climate change makes it susceptible to the problem of moral corruption by institutions and the people facing it – expressed by Stephen Gardiner in the metaphor of a perfect moral storm. In the midst of this difficulty, and in light of

Climate Change Ethics: Navigating the Perfect Moral Storm, by Donald A. Brown. London and New York: Earthscann from Routledge, 2013