Climate change, intergenerational justice, and the non-identity effect

Do we owe it to future generations, as a requirement of justice, to take action to mitigate anthropogenic climate change? This paper examines the implications of Derek Parfit’s notorious non-identity problem for that question. An argument from Jörg Tremmel that the non-identity effect of climate pol...

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Main Author: Thomas D. Bontly
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Tübingen University 2020-02-01
Series:Intergenerational Justice Review
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Online Access:https://open-journals.uni-tuebingen.de/ojs/index.php/igjr/article/view/788