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13Justice in the GreenhouseSocial Philosophy Today 19 89-101. 2003.The current debate surrounding the implementation of the Kyoto Treaty raises several issues that ought to be of interest to social and political philosophers. Proponents and critics alike have invoked ideas of fairness in justification of their positions. The two distinct conceptions of fairness that are involved in this debate—one of fair shares, and another of fair burdens—helpfully illuminate the proper role of fairness in designing an equitable and effective global climate regime. In this pa…Read more
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108Distinguishing Mitigation and AdaptationEthics, Place and Environment 12 (3): 283-286. 2009.Baer et al. seek to develop a single index for distributing the burdens associated with climate change mitigation and adaptation, and to do so in a...
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154Atmospheric Justice: A Political Theory of Climate ChangeOxford University Press. 2008.When the policies and activities of one country or generation harm both other nations and later generations, they constitute serious injustices. Recognizing the broad threat posed by anthropogenic climate change, advocates for an international climate policy development process have expressly aimed to mitigate this pressing contemporary environmental threat in a manner that promotes justice. Yet, while making justice a primary objective of global climate policy has been the movement's noblest as…Read more
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10Review of Understanding Environmental Policy (review)Environmental Ethics 29 (4): 443-444. 2007.
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25Human Rights, Global Justice, or Historical Responsibility? Three Potential AppealsJournal of Value Inquiry 51 (3): 397-415. 2017.
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62The Obligation to Know: Information and the Burdens of CitizenshipEthical Theory and Moral Practice 19 (2): 297-311. 2016.Contemporary persons are daily confronted with enormous quantities of information, some of which reveal causal connections between their actions and harm that is visited upon distant others. Given their limited cognitive and information processing capacities, persons cannot reasonably be expected to respond to every cry for help or call to action, but neither can they defensibly refuse to hear and reflect upon any of them. Persons have a limited obligation to know, I argue, which requires that t…Read more
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University of Colorado, BoulderRegular Faculty
Boulder, Colorado, United States of America
Areas of Interest
Applied Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |