Political Responsibility for Climate Change
Global structural injustices are harms caused by structural processes, involving multiple individuals, acting across more than one state. Young develops the concept of ‘political responsibility,’ to allocate responsibility for structural injustice. In this paper, I am going to argue that when consid...
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Institute of Philosophy of the Jagiellonian University
2020-09-01
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| Series: | The Polish Journal of Aesthetics |
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| Online Access: | https://pjaesthetics.uj.edu.pl/documents/138618288/146593216/pja-58-4-roberts3.pdf/6f5e6e9a-5768-4ca7-8be1-f67daa71246c |
| Summary: | Global structural injustices are harms caused by structural processes, involving multiple individuals, acting across more than one state. Young develops the concept of ‘political responsibility,’ to allocate responsibility for structural injustice. In this paper, I am going to argue that when considering the climate crisis Young’s model needs to be adapted— to have agency as a basis for allocating political responsibility instead of contribution. This is a more intuitive way to allocate responsibility for the climate crisis given its nature as a threshold problem, and the subtle structural positions occupied by the individuals involved. |
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| ISSN: | 2544-8242 2544-8242 |