Climate Change, Responsibility, and Justice

Authors: Dale Jamieson,

Publish Date: 2009/10/22

Volume: 16, Issue:3, Pages: 431-445

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Abstract

In this paper I make the following claims. In order to see anthropogenic climate change as clearly involving moral wrongs and global injustices, we will have to revise some central concepts in these domains. Moreover, climate change threatens another value (“respect for nature”) that cannot easily be taken up by concerns of global justice or moral responsibility.I would like to thank audiences at conferences in Florence, Paris and Amsterdam for helpful discussions of this material, and two anonymous referees for their excellent comments which I have not been able to fully take on board. Thanks in particular to Furio Cerutti and Govert den Hartogh for their helpful comments on earlier versions of this paper.

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