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Heyward, Clare (2014) Benefiting from climate geoengineering and corresponding remedial duties : the case of unforeseeable harms. Journal of Applied Philosophy, Volume 31 (Number 4). pp. 405-419. doi:10.1111/japp.12075 ISSN 0264-3758.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/japp.12075
Abstract
Many have argued that that it is morally wrong to benefit from an agent's culpable wronging of a third party. This thought has formed the basis of some arguments that agents can have duties to make up for wrongful acts by others that they could not have stopped, or that occurred before they were born. For example, it has been argued that those who benefited from slavery, colonialism and other shameful events in their nation's history should surrender those benefits, their equivalent value, or provide other forms of redress. Some have also argued that it is morally wrong to benefit from unjust situations caused by third parties even where there is no culpable element. These ideas have potential to be a principle of redress for harms that are caused by the working of very complex systems, such as the global climate system. Geoengineering, the intentional manipulation of the global climate, is a new development in climate science and policy — and one which raises many normative challenges. This article focuses on one specific challenge. The global climate is very complex and there is a real possibility that the best available science will not be able to account for all the consequences of deploying a geoengineering technique. Therefore, any governance regime that allows deployment will have to consider how to organise compensation or redress for any adverse impacts that could not have been predicted at the time of deployment. This article proposes that, with some modification, the principle that agents should surrender benefits that have accrued to them from using geoengineering techniques, can be a good basis for such a scheme.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Applied Philosophy | ||||||
Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. | ||||||
ISSN: | 0264-3758 | ||||||
Official Date: | October 2014 | ||||||
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Volume: | Volume 31 | ||||||
Number: | Number 4 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 405-419 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1111/japp.12075 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
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