The non-identity problem in climate ethics: A restatement

Intergenerational Justice Review 5 (2) (2020)
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This article justifies and restates the non-identity problem in relation to climate change. First and briefly, I argue that while there is often good reason to set the NIP aside in practical politics, there can be areas where a climate NIP will have practical implications. An instructive example concerns climate change litigation. Second, I argue that there are three particular circumstances of a climate NIP that may set it apart from the more established NIP in bioethics. These differences regard interaction, numbers, and agency respectively. Third, I discuss the premises and conclusion of a climate NIP, modifying an account in bioethics by David Boonin.

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The Non-Identity Problem and the Ethics of Future People.David Boonin - 2014 - New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
The nonidentity problem.Melinda Roberts - 2010 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Past and Future.Lukas Meyer - 2003 - In Lukas H. Meyer, Stanley L. Paulson & Thomas Winfried Menko Pogge, Rights, culture, and the law: themes from the legal and political philosophy of Joseph Raz. New York: Oxford University Press.

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