人為排放導致地球溫度上升及極端氣候頻傳，使得數億人口的糧食需求、安全和生存受到威脅，因此人類不得不採取行動解決全球氣候問題。然而，解決全球氣候問題攸關氣候責任的分配，包括同一世代內部和不同世代之間如何使用地球的有限資源，以及承擔為了降低氣候威脅所必須負起的責任？基此，氣候變遷成為普遍性的道德問題。根據本文研究發現，氣候變遷不僅是影響廣泛的政治問題和社會問題，同時也是道德問題，解決全球氣候問題必須兼顧代際正義和代內正義的實現，而代內正義的實踐是實現代際正義的前提。本文從倫理學的角度，就道德與氣候變遷的關係進行討論，不僅有助於了解全球氣候問題的內涵，同時也對氣候變遷的社會科學研究作出貢獻。 Anthropogenic emissions result in the rapid increase in earth's average surface temperature as well as extreme weather events, which threaten food security and lives of hundreds of millions of people. Thus, humans inevitably have to take actions to solve global climate problems. However, the actions are matters of the distribution of climate responsibilities. It concerns how intergenerational and intragenerational groups use the natural resources, and how much climate responsibilities those groups have to undertake? For these reasons, climate change becomes a universal ethical issue. According to this paper, climate change is not a profound political and social problems, but also ethical one. We need to realize intergenerational and intragenerational justices in order to solve the global climate problems, but the latter is the premise of the former. This paper is aimed to clarify the relationship between ethics and climate change upon the ethical viewpoints. It has made contributions not only in the deepening of understanding of global climate problems, but also the research of climate change in social science.
