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Adapting to Climate Change: What We Owe to Other Animals
Author(s) -
Pepper Angie
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of applied philosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.339
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1468-5930
pISSN - 0264-3758
DOI - 10.1111/japp.12337
Subject(s) - climate change , environmental ethics , duty , climate justice , adaptation (eye) , context (archaeology) , animal rights , action (physics) , animal ethics , economic justice , political science , human rights , non human , sociology , law and economics , law , ecology , psychology , geography , biology , philosophy , physics , archaeology , quantum mechanics , neuroscience
In this article, I expand the existing discourse on climate justice by drawing out the implications of taking animal rights seriously in the context of human‐induced climate change. More specifically, I argue that nonhuman animals are owed adaptive assistance to help them cope with the ill‐effects of climate change, and I advance and defend four principles of climate justice that derive from a general duty of adaptation. Lastly, I suggest that even if one can successfully argue that the protection of human interests in adaptation ought to be prioritised, nonhuman animal rights will continue to place significant constraints on climate change action.