Thinking like a Mall: Environmental Philosophy after the End of Nature
action problem of international climate change bargaining and calling for moral leadership on the part of the US. Although this volume amply testifies to Henry Shue's place as one of the leading philosophers writing on climate change and certainly to his place as one of the first to write on it it is again too repetitious to be assigned as a text for coursework. To get a reasonably full picture of Shue's approach to climate justice, one need only read the final and most recent paper, 'Climate Hope: Implementing the Exit Strategy' (chapter 17) Chapters 8 and 9 are the most philosophically ambitious and interesting papers on climate justice, with most of the rest unlikely to satisfy peer reviewers concerned with philosophical depth and rigor. But I think Shue would agree that the point of these essays was never to plumb the philosophical depths of climate change ethics and climate justice. Their point was instead to awaken all who would listen from their businessas usual slumbers, and to get them to take very seriously the prospect that 'we are engaged in one of the most massive inflictions of harm by one group of humans on other groups of humans in history' (p. 258) In this I believe they were likely successful. Sadly, far too few were listening.