Michael Northcott’s A Moral Climate argues that climate change is not just a scientific problem but a moral and theological one, with the heaviest costs falling on those least responsible for causing it.
Neil Ormerod reviews a nearly twenty-year-old argument to find it hasn’t lost its edge.
… this work is now nearly twenty years old. Much of what the author said remains true. Some of it is worse. … In his final chapter Northcott poses the question, “If it is [already too late to prevent human extinction], will future generations forgive present industrial consumers? We can imagine what they might say to us should they meet us in heaven.” It is a question worth pondering for us all.
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