Which of the Following Best Captures Broome's Main Argument in "Private

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Multiple Choice

Which of the following best captures Broome's main argument in "Private Morality and Climate Change?"

• A) Your greenhouse gas emissions will impose a significant risk of harm on other people. The lack of certainty about those harms is no reason to avoid reducing your emissions. Therefore, you ought to reduce your greenhouse gas emissions to zero.
• B) Your greenhouse gas emissions will cause serious harm to many people. You cannot effectively prevent all of that harm because offsetting is ineffective and unjust. Still, you are morally obligated to reduce your emissions as much as you can.
• C) Your greenhouse gas emissions will unjustly harm other people. You can easily prevent that harm by offsetting your greenhouse gas emissions. Therefore, you are morally obligated to offset your greenhouse gas emissions.
• D) Your greenhouse gas emissions will seriously harm other people. Because of the number of people your emissions will harm, reducing or offsetting those emissions is the most effective and efficient way to make the world better. Therefore, you ought to reduce your emissions as far as possible and offset the rest of them.

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Definitions:

Absorption Costing

A product costing technique in accounting that involves adding direct materials, direct labor, and both kinds of manufacturing overhead—variable and fixed—to the product's cost.

Fixed Manufacturing Overhead

Costs that do not change with the level of production output, including rent, salaries of permanent staff, and depreciation of factory equipment.

Variable Costing

An accounting method that includes only variable production costs in the cost of goods sold, excluding fixed costs.

Net Operating Income

The earnings generated from a company's regular business operations, indicating the efficiency of management.