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Nations, Generations and Climate Justice
Author(s) -
Gosseries Axel
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
global policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.602
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1758-5899
pISSN - 1758-5880
DOI - 10.1111/1758-5899.12112
Subject(s) - climate justice , action (physics) , economic justice , climate change , political science , law and economics , environmental ethics , natural resource economics , business , political economy , law , economics , biology , ecology , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics
In a nutshell, historical emissions resulted from the action of people who were not us and who didn't know about the impact of their emissions at that time. This makes it complicated to assign responsibility to their descendants, even if we adopt a free‐riding based approach.