As climate change persists, and we begin to understand more about the adaptation plans that have been developed we can see how individuals react to these plans and implement them into their daily routine. Yet there are so many questions still left unanswered, and so many minor holes in the details of these developed plans. Kathleen Dean Moore shines light to some of these questions that should concern us all. She firstly asks us what the Earth is asking of us, and although these adaptation plans seem to be directed solely to the well being of our planet earth and the bettering of it, there is still questioning left to be done.

The ethical questions she proses particularly interested me because it makes me think about the effects of climate change on not just myself but on the people that don’t have a say and aren’t able to speak for themselves. We are essentially making these elaborate and extremely costly plans that will further help us live in denial and alter the course climate change already has in store for us. But in doing so, we are turning a blind eye to the people in countries that have already been heavily affected by climate change but don’t have the resources and funds to slow down the course. We are making these plans because we see the damage our toll is taking on other countries, and we do not want such occurrences to happen to us. Therefore we are implementing million dollar plans, to further benefit ourselves but leave the unable to fend for themselves.

This problematic theme of natural selection is apparent in many of the readings we have also discussed. Although the readings are based in the future and have the setting of a world that has been drastically affected by climate change, it still is an overwhelming problem. For example, in The Weatherman the main character struggles with a dilemma of whether or not he should control the weather. In doing so he can help himself and his family or help the sandtowners who have no say in the weather and furthermore are helpless to their own fate. This brings along the moral question of: Is my life more valuable than someone else’s?

Although we have grown up in a world where we are taught to protect ourselves and our own, when does enough become enough? These stories are futuristic and one could argue that they are a stretch of the reality we could face, although this is true, it still shares a common theme that Moore questions. In order to help ourselves against preventing climate change, we are only thinking of ourselves. Yet I think we should make a plan that is effective for all, one that takes into consideration people who may not have many assets but those who have the willingness to make a change in a small way. In doing so all of these small efforts, could turn into a large-scale change in our universe.