Carbon leakage and the argument from no difference
Critics of carbon mitigation often appeal to what Jonathan Glover has called ‘the argument from no difference’: that is, ‘if I don’t do it, someone else will’. Yet even if this justifies continued high emissions by the industrialised countries, it cannot excuse business as usual. The North’s emissio...
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| description | Critics of carbon mitigation often appeal to what Jonathan Glover has called ‘the argument from no difference’: that is, ‘if I don’t do it, someone else will’. Yet even if this justifies continued high emissions by the industrialised countries, it cannot excuse business as usual. The North’s emissions might not harm the victims of climate change in the sense of making them worse off than they would otherwise be. Nevertheless, it receives benefits produced at the latter’s expense. This enrichment is unjust; unjustly-enriched agents ought to make compensation. The best form of compensation is vigorous action against climate change. |
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| spelling | nottingham-350542020-05-04T17:11:57Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/35054/ Carbon leakage and the argument from no difference Rendall, Matthew Critics of carbon mitigation often appeal to what Jonathan Glover has called ‘the argument from no difference’: that is, ‘if I don’t do it, someone else will’. Yet even if this justifies continued high emissions by the industrialised countries, it cannot excuse business as usual. The North’s emissions might not harm the victims of climate change in the sense of making them worse off than they would otherwise be. Nevertheless, it receives benefits produced at the latter’s expense. This enrichment is unjust; unjustly-enriched agents ought to make compensation. The best form of compensation is vigorous action against climate change. White Horse Press 2015-08-01 Article PeerReviewed Rendall, Matthew (2015) Carbon leakage and the argument from no difference. Environmental Values, 24 (4). pp. 535-552. ISSN 1752-7015 Climate change; carbon leakage; consequentialism; over-determination http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/whp/ev/2015/00000024/00000004/art00007 doi:10.3197/096327115X14345368710022 doi:10.3197/096327115X14345368710022 |
| spellingShingle | Climate change; carbon leakage; consequentialism; over-determination Rendall, Matthew Carbon leakage and the argument from no difference |
| title | Carbon leakage and the argument from no difference |
| title_full | Carbon leakage and the argument from no difference |
| title_fullStr | Carbon leakage and the argument from no difference |
| title_full_unstemmed | Carbon leakage and the argument from no difference |
| title_short | Carbon leakage and the argument from no difference |
| title_sort | carbon leakage and the argument from no difference |
| topic | Climate change; carbon leakage; consequentialism; over-determination |
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