In both discourses on resilience and climate, there is an emerging concept, namely climate resilience. This concept is examined from an ethical standpoint, with particular emphasis on its validity claims. A comparison with the more firmly entrenched concept of sustainability reveals that resilience is not a moral but a functional concept, thus lacking the capacity to provide a rationale for ethically sound political decisions on its own. The ambiguity of climate resilience is elucidated by revisiting the distinction between adaptation and mitigation, a common theme in climate policy. The argument is made that a transformative approach to climate resilience must be grounded in an open public debate on the good society
Jochen Ostheimer (Thu,) studied this question.