GOVT3995 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Climate Justice, International Inequality, Negative And Positive Rights

• School: University of Sydney
• Department: Government and International Relations
• Course: GOVT3995
• Professor: Professor David Schlosberg

Document Summary

Climate ethics: essential readings (oxford 2010, pp 101-111). Simon caney, climate change, human rights, and moral thresholds in s. Human rights and climate change (cambridge 2010, pp 69-90). Breena holland, environment as meta-capability: why a dignified human life. Requires a stable climate system from ethical adaptation to climate change , allen. Thompson and jeremy bendik-keymer, eds. (mit 2012, pp 145-164). Rights of mother earth: indigenous perspectives on climate justice. Henry shue, global environment and international inequality in gardiner, et al, Internalisation of externalities: where the price of a product does not include the cost of its production, the costs are externalised and dumped on other parties. This is unfair to whoever does pay the costs. By making himself better off in ways that make others worse off, he is creating an expanding inequality. we are justified in reversing the inequality by imposing extra burdens upon the producer of the inequality.