The author of several publications covering climate change and the recipient of the Eureka Prize for Ethics is the guest speaker at the November Port Macquarie Philosophy Forum.
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The philosophy forum is at Port City Bowling Club on Sunday November 18, 6pm to about 7.30pm.
Cost is $10 or $5 pensioner concession.
Jeremy Moss is the professor of political philosophy at the University of NSW.
Professor Moss’s main research interests are in political philosophy and applied philosophy.
His current research interests include projects on, climate justice, the ethics of renewable energy as well as the ethical issues associated with climate transitions.
He is co-director of the Practical Justice Initiative and leads the Climate Justice Research program at UNSW as part of the Practical Justice Initiative (PJI).
Professor Moss has published several books including: Reassessing Egalitarianism, Climate Change and Social Justice, and Climate Change and Justice (Cambridge University Press).
Recent publications include: The Morality of Divestment, Law and Policy, July 2017; Mining and Morality, Australian Journal of Political Science, Vol 51 No 3, 2016; Going It Alone: Cities and States for Climate Action, Ethics, Policy and Environment, 12/2/18.
Along with the Eureka Prize, he has also received the Australasia Association of Philosophy Media Prize and several Australian Research Council Grants including most recently, Ethics, Responsibility and the Carbon Budget, with researchers from Adelaide, ANU and Oxford.
To avoid dangerous climate change the world must drastically reduce its reliance on fossil fuels.
- Professor Jeremy Moss
He chaired the UNESCO working group on Climate Ethics and Energy Security, and has been a visitor at Oxford, Milan and McGill universities.
Professor Moss said the title of his talk is, ethics, exports and climate change.
"To avoid dangerous climate change the world must drastically reduce its reliance on fossil fuels," he said.
"For a country such as Australia, this poses a difficult challenge.
"This is because Australia is not only a heavy domestic greenhouse gas emissions producer, it also exports a huge quantity of coal and gas, which contribute significantly to global emissions.
"The amount of emissions produced from Australia’s exports of fossil fuels is considerably more than our domestic emissions.
"My claim is that being an exporter of fossil fuels places extra moral and political obligations on Australia to transition away from fossil fuels and to take responsibility for the harms to which the emissions from those fuels have contributed."
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