Intergenerational Challenges and Climate Justice

Name: Intergenerational Challenges and Climate Justice
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Intergenerational Challenges and Climate JusticeSetting the Scope of Our Obligations\nAuthor(s): Livia Ester Luzzatto\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032193779, 978-1032193779\nSynopsis\nClimate change poses questions of intergenerational justice, but some of its features make it difficult to determine whether we have obligations of climate justice to future generations. This book offers a novel argument, justifying the present generations obligations to future people.\n\nLivia Ester Luzzatto shows that we have intergenerational obligations because many of our actions are based on presuppositions about future people. When agents engage in such intergenerational actions, they also acquire an obligation to recognise those future people as agents within their principles of justice and with that a duty to respect their agency and autonomy. Intergenerational Challenges and Climate Justice also offers a way to circumv.