Climate Change and Future Justice

Precaution, Compensation and Triage

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, Politics, History & Theory
Cover of the book Climate Change and Future Justice by Catriona McKinnon, Taylor and Francis
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Author: Catriona McKinnon ISBN: 9781136625183
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Publication: March 12, 2012
Imprint: Routledge Language: English
Author: Catriona McKinnon
ISBN: 9781136625183
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Publication: March 12, 2012
Imprint: Routledge
Language: English

Climate change creates unprecedented problems of intergenerational justice. What do members of the current generation owe to future generations in virtue of the contribution they are making to climate change?

Providing important new insights within the theoretical framework of political liberalism, Climate Change and Future Justice presents arguments in three key areas:

  • Mitigation: the current generation ought to adopt a strong precautionary principle in formulating climate change policy in order to minimise the risks of serious harm from climate change imposed on future generations
  • Adaptation: the current generation ought to create a fund to which members of future generations may apply for compensation if the risks of climate change harm imposed on them by the current generation ripen into harms
  • Triage: future generations ought to keep alive hope for a return to the framework of justice for the social cooperation of future people less burdened by climate change harms.

 

This work presents agenda-setting applications of important principles of democratic equality to the most serious set of political challenges ever faced by human society. It should be required reading for political theorists and environmental philosophers.

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Climate change creates unprecedented problems of intergenerational justice. What do members of the current generation owe to future generations in virtue of the contribution they are making to climate change?

Providing important new insights within the theoretical framework of political liberalism, Climate Change and Future Justice presents arguments in three key areas:

 

This work presents agenda-setting applications of important principles of democratic equality to the most serious set of political challenges ever faced by human society. It should be required reading for political theorists and environmental philosophers.

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