Climate Justice

Dominic Roser is a Research Fellow at the Oxford Martin Programme on Human Rights for Future Generations at the University of Oxford, UK. Christian Seidel is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.

Preface

1 Climate Change as an Ethical Challenge

Part I Do We Need To Do Anything at All? Moral Justification of the Need to Act

2 Three Reasons for Skepticism About the Duty to Mitigate Climate Change

3 Fundamental Doubts about Our Responsibility for the Future

4 Mitigation, Adaptation, or Climate Engineering—Do Many Roads Lead to the Desired Goal?

Part II How Much Do We Need to Do? Intergenerational Justice

5 Equality for Our Descendants

6 More for Our Descendants

7 Enough for Our Descendants

8 Uncertainty and the Precautionary Principle

9 Inequality and an Interim Conclusion

Part III How Should We Assign Responsibility? Global Justice

10 The Greatest Redistribution in Human History

11 Grandfathering: To Those Who Have, More Shall Be Given

12 The Polluter Pays Principle: Taking Responsibility for One’s Actions

13 The Beneficiary Pays Principle: Those Who Benefit Must Pay

14 The Ability-to-Pay Principle: To Each According to Her Means

15 Emissions Egalitarianism: Dividing up the Cake Equally

16 A Far-Reaching Proposal

Part IV From Ethical Theory to Political Practice

17 Non-ideal Theory: What to Do When Others Fail to Comply?

18 Population, Technology, Affluence: Three Strategies for Reducing Emissions

19 The Market for Emissions: A Modern Sale of Indulgences?

20 Procedural Justice: Democracy in Times of Climate Change

21 Looking Back and Checking Up With Reality

Glossary

Index