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229Singer Revisited: Cosmopolitanism, Global Poverty and Our Ethical RequirementsSouth African Journal of Philosophy 29 (2): 85-94. 2010.A commonly held view is that giving to the poor is superogatory i.e., that while it is a good thing to do, it is not morally wrong for us not to do so. This essay sets out to show that for the affluent in the world giving to the poor is not superogatory but is rather a moral obligation. The paper critiques Singer's famous argument in ‘Famine, Affluence and Morality’ and finds that although the argument is a cogent and powerful one, Singer, when trying to apply the argument to how we should act, …Read more
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17If You’re ‘Still In’ the Paris Climate Agreement, Then Show Us the MoneyEthics, Policy and Environment 21 (1): 52-55. 2018.In the wake of Trump’s misguided decision to pull the United States out of the Paris Climate Agreement, there has been a groundswell of sub-national US support for climate action. Governors Brown (...
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21Creating a new declaration of rights : a critical reconstruction of earth jurisprudence's global legislative frameworkDissertation, Rhodes University. 2012.This thesis aims to critique the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth and its underlying moral justification in order to provide a stronger and improved version of both. In Chapter 1 I explore what sort of moral justification is necessary to establish the Universal Declaration on firm grounds and explore its relation to environmental ethics and rights discourse. I argue that a non-anthropocentric perspective is necessary to justify the Universal Declaration’s rights. In Chapter 2 …Read more
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24The Universal Declaration’s Problematic Rights JustificationSouth African Journal of Philosophy 31 (2): 314-327. 2012.In this paper I aim to critically analyse the underlying moral justification of the rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Mother Earth. The aim of the critique is to highlight some of the problematic areas that underpin the Declaration’s rights and in doing so to point to ways that one can begin to rectify the problems with them and the Universal Declaration itself. The paper aims to critically examine the moral justification for the Universal Declaration’s rights, which…Read more
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