DOI: 10.1002/wcc.453
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-85013371923
论文题名: Should there be future people? A fundamental question for climate change and intergenerational justice
作者: Sanklecha P
刊名: Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change
ISSN: 17577780
出版年: 2017
卷: 8, 期: 3 语种: 英语
英文关键词: Philosophical aspects
; Future generations
; Climate change
; climate change
; climate effect
; conceptual framework
; ethics
; future prospect
英文摘要: The effects of climate change will be felt far into the future, long after currently living people have stopped existing. A popular way of understanding what this means ethically is to conceptualize the issue in terms of intergenerational justice: currently living people have duties of justice toward future generations to not wrongfully harm them, or duties to reduce the risk of violating the rights future people will have when they exist. In this article I show that this depends on assumptions about the existence, identity, and number of future people. I argue for the relevance and importance of ethically investigating these assumptions; in particular of asking: should humanity continue to exist? I argue that this ethical investigation is necessary to properly and fully understand the ethical challenges that climate change creates. WIREs Clim Change 2017, 8:e453. doi: 10.1002/wcc.453. 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/76179
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: Department of Philosophy, Karl-Franzens-University Graz, Graz, Austria
Recommended Citation:
Sanklecha P. Should there be future people? A fundamental question for climate change and intergenerational justice[J]. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change,2017-01-01,8(3)