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dc.contributor.authorMulgan, Tim
dc.date.accessioned2018-06-18T23:31:54Z
dc.date.available2018-06-18T23:31:54Z
dc.date.issued2018-08
dc.identifier.citationMulgan , T 2018 , ' Answering to future people : responsibility for climate change in a breaking world ' , Journal of Applied Philosophy , vol. 35 , no. 3 , pp. 532-548 . https://doi.org/10.1111/japp.12222en
dc.identifier.issn1468-5930
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 243564249
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: 3ae9c419-53b3-4e57-a7ef-8f1f94c18c82
dc.identifier.otherBibtex: urn:dab3880326b6a8b8334a50c5c67775ed
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 84978512515
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000441560800005
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/14219
dc.description.abstractOur everyday notions of responsibility are often driven by our need to justify ourselves to specific others – especially those we harm, wrong, or otherwise affect. One challenge for contemporary ethics is to extend this interpersonal urgency to our relations with those future people who are harmed or affected by our actions. In this article, I explore our responsibility for climate change by imagining a possible ‘broken future’, damaged by the carbon emissions of previous generations (including ourselves), and then asking what its inhabitants might think of our current behaviour, our moral thinking, and our excuses. In particular, I will focus on a simplified scenario where present people can only avoid a broken future by sacrificing Rawlsian favourable conditions. Suppose we refuse to avoid a broken future, on the grounds that we cannot be expected to make such great sacrifices. If the broken future lacks favourable conditions, will its inhabitants accept our excuses? Will they hold us responsible for things we regard as excusable? If so, should we be guided by their judgements or by our own?
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Applied Philosophyen
dc.rights© Society for Applied Philosophy, 2016. This work is made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/japp.12222en
dc.subjectB Philosophy (General)en
dc.subjectT-NDASen
dc.subjectSDG 13 - Climate Actionen
dc.subject.lccB1en
dc.titleAnswering to future people : responsibility for climate change in a breaking worlden
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.description.versionPostprinten
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Philosophyen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1111/japp.12222
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.date.embargoedUntil2018-06-18


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