PHILOSOPHY AND COMPARATIVE RELIGION

Abstract:

Climate change is the single most critical planetary threat today. This is evident from an all-time high record reached on all four standard indicators of climate change: increasing greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations, rising sea level, soaring ocean heat, and growing ocean acidification. Two broad explanatory perspectives on climate change emerge: one from the developed North and the other from the developing South. This paper explores the major causes of climate change, provides a comparative appraisal of the two perspectives, goes beyond them and advances a third perspective that traces the cause of climate change to the flawed vision of development.