DOI: 10.1002/wcc.459
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-85013005058
论文题名: What [shall][should] we do? Why a binding climate treaty is in your interest
作者: Hall N
刊名: Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change
ISSN: 17577780
出版年: 2017
卷: 8, 期: 4 语种: 英语
英文关键词: Bins
; Climate change
; Carbon emissions
; Moral obligations
; Moral responsibility
; Non ideals
; Non-ideal conditions
; Laws and legislation
; carbon emission
; climate change
; emission control
; international agreement
; morality
英文摘要: This paper investigates whether and under what conditions a binding climate treaty can affect our individual moral obligations. Walter Sinnott-Armstrong has argued that our sole moral obligation regarding climate change is to develop something like a binding treaty. On such an understanding, a binding agreement of the right type would absolve individuals of any further moral responsibilities to reduce carbon emissions. However, while something like this may be true in ideal circumstances of strict compliance, this paper argues that this is not the case in nonideal circumstances of partial compliance. The paper will proceed, first, by outlining the distinction between constitutive and nonconstitutive rules, or practice and summary rules, in Rawlsian terminology. I will then suggest that climate treaties, under the right circumstances, could fulfill the role of a practice with constitutive rules. If this is right, then the binding or nonbinding nature of a treaty (as well as the content of the treaty itself) could make it such that, under ideal circumstances, individuals have no obligation to reduce their carbon output beyond the requirements of the treaty. However, in the nonideal conditions of the actual world, the absence of full compliance to such institutions results in individual actions being subject to strict moral obligations. Consequently, it is in an individual's interest to enact such a binding treaty, at least insofar as they are at least somewhat concerned with fulfilling their moral obligations and would like to reduce the burdens of doing so. WIREs Clim Change 2017, 8:e459. doi: 10.1002/wcc.459. For further resources related to this article, please visit the WIREs website. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/76169
Appears in Collections: 影响、适应和脆弱性 气候变化与战略
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作者单位: Philosophy, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, United States
Recommended Citation:
Hall N. What [shall][should] we do? Why a binding climate treaty is in your interest[J]. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change,2017-01-01,8(4)