Climate Change and the Moral Agent Individual Duties in an Interdependent World 1st Edition by Elizabeth Cripps ISBN 0199665656 978-0199665655

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ISBN 10: 0199665656 

ISBN 13: 978-0199665655

Author: Elizabeth Cripps

Many of us take it for granted that we ought to cooperate to tackle climate change. But where does this requirement come from, and what does it mean for us as individuals trying to do the right thing? Climate change does very great harm, to our fellow humans and to the non-human world, but no one causes it on their own and it isn’t the result of intentionally collective action. In the face of the current failure of institutions to face up to the problem, is there anything we can do as individuals that will leave us able to live with ourselves? This book responds to these challenges. It makes a moral case for collective action on climate change by appealing to moralized collective self-interest, collective ability to aid, and an expanded understanding of collective responsibility for harm. On top of these, it argues that collective action is something we owe to ourselves, as moral agents, because without it we are left facing marring choices. In the absence of collective action, individuals should focus on trying to promote such action (whether through or by bypassing existing institutions), with a supplementary duty to aid victims directly. The argument is not that we should not be cutting our own emissions: this can be a necessary part of bringing about collective action or alleviating harm. However, such ‘green’ lifestyle choices cannot be straightforwardly defended as duties in their own right, and they should not take priority over trying to bring about collective change.

Table of contents: 

 

 

PART ONE: CLIMATE CHANGE AND US

Collective self-interest, collective inaction, and collective harm

2. In the Same Boat

(i) Re-thinking collectivities
(ii) Non-intentionalist collectivities
(iii) Climate change, risk, and fundamental interests
(iv) (Not quite) a collectivity of humanity
(v) Collective beneficence
(vi) Collectivities, prudential incentives, and moral duties

3. Doing and Preventing Harm

(i) Should-be collectivities
(ii) Harm we can prevent together
(iii) Harm we do between us
(iv) Climate change and collective harm
(v) Practice and principle

PART TWO: PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES

Duties to whom?

4. Harming and Protecting Non-Humans

(i) Non-human collectivities
(ii) Harm, beneficence, and non-human animals
(iii) Harming and protecting species and systems
(iv) What’s in a number? Mitigation and the non-identity problem
(v) Too many victims

PART THREE: CLIMATE CHANGE AND ME
What I should do when we fail to act

5. Mimicking Duties
(i) Exclusivity and ‘fair shares’
(ii) Individual harm
(iii) Consequences and ideal rules
(iv) Playing by future rules
(v) Mimicking as a virtue
(vi) Kantian contradictions
Conclusions

6. Promotional and Direct Duties
(i) Individuals and institutions
(ii) Effectiveness, fairness, and efficiency
(iii) Direct duties
(iv) Back to mimicking: motivation and hypocrisy
(v) The limits of demandingness
(vi) Different demands?
Conclusions

PART FOUR: CLIMATE CHANGE AND MORAL BAGGAGE
Collective failure, individual costs, and marring choices

7. Living With Ourselves
(i) Being human
(ii) The cost of doing what we ought
(iii) Moral taint
(iv) Irreconcilable choices
(v) Irreconcilability, marring, and regret
(vi) Are we all marred by tragic choices?
(vii) Objections
Conclusions

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