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

• Published in: Hypatia
• Main Author: Davion, Victoria
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2009
• Subjects: Arctic; Global warming; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2009.00012.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1527-2001.2009.00012.x; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0887536700018742

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.