PHIL 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Global Warming, Climate Justice, Null Result
22 Dec 2016
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Why is climate change a matter of justice: because it centrally involves questions of the distribution of burdens and benefits in collective action in a sustainable environment environment. (enry shue"s paper addresses the synchronic axis while john broome"s. Everyone has a shared interest in attaining a certain result (e. g. , curbing carbon emissions) But at the same time, everyone has opposing interests, in try to avoid incurring the cost: free-rider problems: analogy with taxation, etc. This collective action problem is hard because we lack effective enforcement mechanisms at the level of global politics. Rich countries have rarely been willing to cooperate on equal terms with poor countries growth on the scale that made us rich. We are already rich, they are not: why should they agree to curb. Climate change might alter this: achieving the aim requires dissuading the (cid:498)least developed countries(cid:499) (cid:523)ldcs) from seeking industrialization and.
