The fruit of twenty years of moral reflection on the emerging greatest
challenge to humanity of the 21st century, these far-sighted and
influential essays by a pioneering practical philosopher on the
tangled questions of justice between nations and justice across
generations confronting all attempts at international cooperation in
controlling climate change sharply crystallize the central choices and
offer constructive directions forward. Arguing that persistent
attempts by U.S. negotiators to avoid the fundamental issues of
justice at the heart of persistent international disagreement on the
terms of a binding multilateral treaty are as morally misguided as
they are diplomatically counter-productive, Henry Shue has built a
case that efforts to price carbon (through cap-and-trade or carbon
taxes) as a mechanism to drive down greenhouse gas emissions by the
affluent must, for both ethical and political reasons, be complemented
by international transfers that temporarily subsidize the development
of non-carbon energy and its dissemination to those trapped in
poverty. Our vital escape from climate change rooted in the dominance
of the fossil fuel regime ought not, and in fact need not, come at the
price of de-railing the escape of the world's poorest from poverty
rooted in lack of affordable energy that does not undermine the
climate. The momentum of changes in the planetary climate system and
the political inertia of energy regimes mean that future generations,
like the poorest of the present, are vulnerable to our decisions, and
they have rights not to be left helpless by those of us with the power
instead to leave them hope.
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ISBN
9780191022807
Publisert
2020
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OUP Oxford
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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