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Byskov, Morten Fibieger and Hyams, Keith D. (2022) Who should represent future generations in climate planning? Ethics & International Affairs, 36 (2). pp. 199-214. doi:10.1017/S0892679422000168 ISSN 0892-6794.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0892679422000168
Abstract
Extreme impacts from climate change are already being felt around the world. The policy choices that we make now affect not only how high global temperatures will rise, but also how well-equipped future economies and infrastructures will be to cope with these changes. The interests of future generations must therefore be central to climate policy and planning. This raises the questions: who should should represent future generations and according to which criteria should we judge whether a particular candidate would make an appropriate representative for future generations? In this essay, we argue that potential representatives of future generations should satisfy what we call a “hypothetical acceptance criterion,” which requires that the representative could reasonably be expected to achieve the acceptance of future generations. This overarching criterion in turn gives rise to two derivative criteria. These are, first, “epistemic and experiential similarity to future generations” and, second, “motivation to act on behalf of future generations.” We conclude that communities already adversely affected by climate change best satisfy these criteria and are therefore able to command the hypothetical acceptance of future generations.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences | ||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Environmental justice, Climatic changes -- Social aspects, Environmental ethics | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Ethics & International Affairs | ||||||
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | ||||||
| ISSN: | 0892-6794 | ||||||
| Official Date: | July 2022 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 36 | ||||||
| Number: | 2 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 199-214 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1017/S0892679422000168 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This article has been accepted for publication in a revised form for publication in Ethics & International Affairs https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/ethics-and-international-affairs | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
| Copyright Holders: | Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs | ||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 29 April 2022 | ||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 29 April 2022 | ||||||
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