Feminist Perspectives on Global Warming, Genocide, and Card's Theory of Evil

In: Hypatia: a journal of feminist philosophy, Band 24, Heft 1, S. 160-177

Abstract

This essay explores several moral issues raised by global warming through the lens of Claudia Card's theory of evil. I focus on Alaskan villages in the sub-Arctic whose residents must relocate owing to extreme erosion, melting sea ice, and rising water levels. I use Card's discussion of genocide as social death to argue that failure to help these groups maintain their unique cultural identities can be thought of as genocidal.