Monograph
Climate Change and the Moral Agent:
Individual Duties in an Interdependent World Oxford University Press, 2013 Many of us take it for granted that we ought to cooperate to tackle climate change. But where does this requirement come from, and what does it mean for us as individuals trying to do the right thing? Climate change does very great harm to our fellow humans and to the non-human world, but no one causes it on their own and it isn’t the result of intentionally collective action. In the face of the current failure of institutions to face up to the problem, is there anything we can do as individuals that will leave us able to live with ourselves? My book responds to these challenges. A moral case is made for collective action on climate change, by appeal to moralized collective self-interest, collective ability to aid, and an expanded understanding of collective responsibility for harm. It is further argued that collective action on climate change is something we owe to ourselves, to save us from marring choices. Pushing the boundaries, the book explores collective climate duties to non-humans and asks what our primary individuals duties are in the absence of effective collective action. (Should we be mimicking what we would have to do under a fair collective scheme, or promoting collective action, or aiding victims directly?) |
Research papers
2021
"Intergenerational Ethics & Individual Duties." Stephen Gardiner ed. Oxford Handbook of Intergenerational Ethics (Oxford University Press) "Population Ethics for an Imperfect World: Basic justice, reasonable disagreement, and unavoidable value judgements." Journal of Development Studies K. Dooley, C. Holz, S. Kartha, S. Klinsky, T. Roberts, H. Shue, H. Winkler, T. Athanasiou, S. Caney, E. Cripps, N. K. Dubash, G. Hall, P. G. Harris, B. Lahn, D. Moellendorf, B. Müller, A. Sagar, P. Singer. ‘On the basis of equity: Quantifications of fair contributions under the Paris Agreement.’ Nature Climate Change 11: 300-305 2020 "Individual Climate Justice Duties: The Cooperative Promotional Model and Its Challenges." Jeremy Moss and Lachlan Umbers eds. Climate Justice and Non-State Actors: Corporations, Regions, Cities, and Individuals (Routledge) 2017 "Do Parents Have A Special Duty To Mitigate Climate Change?" Politics, Philosophy & Economics 16 (3): 308-325 "Population, Climate Change, and Global Justice: A Moral Framework for Debate." Journal of Population and Sustainability 1 (2): 23-36 "Justice, Integrity and Moral Community: Do parents owe it to their children to bring them up as good global climate citizens?" Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 117 (1): 41-59 2016 “Climate Change, Population, and Justice: Hard Choices to Avoid Tragic Choices.” Global Justice: Theory, Practice, Rhetoric 8 (2): 1-22 "Population and Environment: The Impossible, the Impermissible, and the Imperative" Stephen Gardiner and Allen Thompson eds. Oxford Handbook of Environmental Ethics (Oxford University Press) 2011 "Climate Change, Collective Harm and Legitimate Coercion" Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 14 (2): 171-193. Reprinted in: Gideon Calder and Catriona McKinnon eds. Climate Change and Liberal Priorities (London: Routledge, 2011) "Collectivities without Intention" Journal of Social Philosophy 42 (1): 1-20 2010 "Saving the Polar Bear, Saving the World: Can the Capabilities Approach do Justice to Humans, Animals and Ecosystems?" Res Publica 16 (1): 1-22 |
Reviews, correspondence & edited symposium
2019
'Breakthrough’ symposium: "Henry Shue, Climate Justice Pioneer." British Journal of Politics and International Relations 21(2) 2018 S. Kartha, T. Athanasiou, S. Caney, E. Cripps, K. Dooley, N. K. Dubash, T. Fei, P. G. Harris, C. Holz, B. Lahn, D. Moellendorf, B. Müller, J. Timmons Roberts, A. Sagar, H. Shue, P. Singer & H. Winkler "Cascading biases against poorer countries" Nature Climate Change 8 (2): 348-349 2016 “On Climate Matters: Offsetting, Population, & Justice.” Midwest Studies in Philosophy 40 (1): 114-128 Symposium on John Broome: Climate Matters: Ethics in a Warming World (London & New York: Norton, 2012). 2013 Review of Adrian Armstrong: Ethics and Justice for the Environment (London and New York: Routledge, 2012) Environmental Politics 22 (6): 1055-1057 2012 Review of Clare Palmer: Animal Ethics in Context (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010) Environmental Values 21 (2): 238-240 Review of Tim Mulgan: Ethics for a Broken World (Durham: Acumen, 2011) The Philosophers' Magazine 56: 108-109 2011 "Where We Are Now: Climate Ethics and Future Challenges" Review Essay, Climate Law 2: 117-133 |