Pragmatist Climate Ethics: A Wicked Case for Pragmatic Pluralism in Moral Theory

If we are going to deal more intelligently with environmental entanglements such as climate change, then we must cultivate better conditions for dialogue, debate, and persuasion. Moral fundamentalist habits, and the monistic one-way assumption that unintentionally—but not blamelessly—exercises and reinforces them, are obstacles to creating a context of inclusion that fosters habits of moral and political inquiry better suited to intelligently perceiving and responding to contemporary predicaments rapidly transforming our warming planet. A critical focus on pragmatic pluralism would be salutary.