Abstract This paper outlines central challenges that climate change presents for environmental ethics, and some important responses to it. We briefly introduce key ideas from environmental ethics and note the importance of nonanthropocentrism to the history of environmental ethics. We point out that while philosophers have previously engaged with the impacts of climate change, their primary focus has typically been on intra- and intergenerational justice between humans. More recently, however, environmental ethicists have developed wide-ranging responses to climate change, recognizing that its pervasive nature makes defending traditional values (such as wildness) and strategies (such as setting aside reserves) difficult in practice. We conclude by outlining divergent ways of developing environmental ethics in the light of climate change.
Palmer et al. (Fri,) studied this question.