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On its original publication, the journal Ethics devoted 30 pages to a review of Obligations to Future Generations, and the book is still frequently and extensively cited and discussed. The philosophical questions raised here centre around ‘whether and to what degree it can be morally incumbent on us to make sacrifices to bring happy people into the world or to avoid preventing them being brought into the world’. The implications surrounding this central question are becoming ever more urgent in the light of increasing concerns over dwindling resources, population growth, globalisation and environmental risk. This collection is essential reading for students of ethics and social policy, and for anyone concerned with the relation between the present choices and future chances of humanity.

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Format PDF ● Pages 264 ● ISBN 9781912186518 ● Editor Brian Barry & R.I. Sikora ● Publisher The White Horse Press ● Published 2012 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 8448612 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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