Ibe, Eunice2023-02-162023-02-162023http://hdl.handle.net/10393/44628https://doi.org/10.20381/ruor-28834This study titled, “The Ethical Paradoxes in Global Warming and its Mitigation Strategies”, places emphasis on the ethical issues emerging from global warming and particularly the implications of mitigation and adaptation on the least advantaged worldwide. Global warming is basically attributable to the surge in burning of fossil fuels in both the developed nations and developing nations and is the main reason behind the destruction of the Earth’s climate. This study observes that adverse climatic effects developing from this phenomenon are presently faced mostly by the least developed countries. This study uses Garrett Hardin’s remarkable thesis The Tragedy of the Commons as its theoretical framework. Hardin identified that people tend to excessively use a commonly owned resource which ends up in its eventual ruin. In this research, the global climate is the commons under the risk of destruction by global warming. The ethical ground on which this study will take its roots is in the theory of consequentialism, which can be traced back to the views of Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill but, for the purpose of this study, I am going to dwell on the theory of consequentialism as espoused by Steven Gardiner, in his book titled A Perfect Moral Storm. This study aims at projecting the consequences of mankind’s actions on the present and future generations with regards to global warming and its mitigation strategies, since consequentialism is an ethical theory that dwells on the consequences of our actions, rules or practices. Seeing that global warming is greatly influenced by the actions of humans, I think it is the best standard ethical theory for this study.en