Ethics, Energy Transition, and Ecological Citizenship

Bourban, Michel

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“…In addition to reducing food's GHG emissions by 6.6 billion metric tons of CO 2e , the transition would remove 8.1 billion metric tons of CO 2 from the land that is no longer required for food production (Poore & Nemecek, 2018). In the sector of energy, the transition relies on replacing fossil fuels with renewable energies, increasing energy efficiency and reducing energy use (Bourban, 2022). Policies that support the agriculture and energy transitions include taxing or even prohibiting high‐emitting luxury goods such as jets, yachts and sport utility vehicules, cutting global subsidies on fossil fuels, and increasing subsidies on renewable energies and plant‐based products (see e.g., Cafaro, 2011).…”

Section: Two Ecological Componentsmentioning

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Ecological cosmopolitan citizenship

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2023

Future Humanities

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This article investigates the ecological components and implications of cosmopolitan citizenship. Supporters of the model of cosmopolitan citizenship tend to take the natural environment as a background assumption. In contrast, this article argues that if they want to fulfill the demands of cosmopolitan justice, cosmopolitan citizens should also be ecological citizens. The first part highlights that cosmopolitan citizenship relies on two ecological claims: the environmental impacts claim and the environmental precondition claim. The second part addresses two tensions between cosmopolitan citizenship and ecological citizenship: the tension between economic development and environmental protection and the tension between resourcism and strong environmental sustainability. The third part explores two implications of the convergence between ecological citizenship and cosmopolitan citizenship: the interconnection of the public and the private spheres and the move from anthropocentrism to nonanthropocentrism. The objective is to link cosmopolitan theory with green political theory by taking a fresh look at cosmopolitan citizenship.

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Section: Two Ecological Componentsmentioning

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Ecological cosmopolitan citizenship

Bourban

2023

Future Humanities

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“…consumption choices) contribute to individuals' ecological footprint, the private realm becomes a site of citizenship activity. One can be a good ecological citizen not only as a voter, an elector, or an activist, but also as a consumer, a producer, a parent, or a worker (Barry 2006;Bourban 2020).…”

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Ecological Citizenship

Bourban

2023

Handbook of the Anthropocene

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This article explores the main features of ecological citizenship and explains why this form of post-national citizenship is better adapted to facing current environmental issues than traditional forms of bounded citizenship. It draws on Andrew Dobson's Citizenship and the Environment (2003), one of the most sustained attempts to examine citizenship from an ecological perspective, but also suggests modifying and complementing this influential account using three approaches: cosmopolitanism, limitarianism, and the planetary boundary framework. These three elements could contribute to giving a fresh start to ecological citizenship, a notion that was much debated from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s, but that has been gradually marginalized in discussions within citizenship theory.

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“…Defining virtues as character traits that help promote human and nonhuman flourishing, both individually and collectively, Gambrel and Cafaro (2009) have put forward simplicity, understood as an attitude toward material goods that typically includes decreased consumption. To this list, we can add energy sobriety, understood as a self-imposed behavior to reduce one's overall energy use in order to reduce one's carbon footprint as much as possible (Bourban, 2022). Integrity, humility, temperance, mindfulness, simplicity, and energy sobriety are all based on an ethical principle of self-limitation that guides individuals' everyday choices.…”

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“…This is why, as Baatz (2014, p. 12) stresses, "the duty of the very wealthy is much greater than the duty of an ordinary worker or middleclass person." Each person trying to reduce their carbon footprint must assess where their efforts can be best spent, but surely many opportunities are available to many people, especially affluent people in developed countries (Bourban, 2022).…”

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“…They especially stress two key measures that states could implement to fulfill their mitigation responsibilities: energy efficiency and the expansion of renewables in their energy mix (Caney, 2020, p. 357;Heyward, 2012, p. 721). These two measures are two major pillars of the energy transition, which relies on progressively replacing fossil fuels with renewables (Bourban, 2022). Rapidly phasing fossil fuels out of the global energy mix can only be achieved through massive public investment in renewables to make this alternative source of energy both available and affordable for most consumers and producers, in developed and developing countries alike.…”

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Mitigation Duties

Bourban

2023

Handbooks in Philosophy

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To avoid dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system, drastic mitigation measures have become necessary. But who should do what and how much of it should they do to help the global effort to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions? This chapter addresses this question by specifying the identity of duty-bearers, the content of their mitigation duties, and how demanding these duties are. It identifies five families of agents and explains that each individual and collective agent has specific duties to contribute to mitigation measures: individual agents, nation-states, subnational jurisdictions, supranational formations, and economic corporations. For each family of agents, arguments for and against mitigation duties are scrutinized, with the objective of presenting a detailed account of burden-sharing climate justice. In addition to investigating the duties held by individual agents and nation-states, the two families of agents that have attracted most attention from climate justice scholars so far, this chapter also proposes to focus on three new agents in order to turn philosophical discussions on climate change in new directions: cities, the World Trade Organization, and carbon majors. The polycentric approach to climate change governance and the related normative framework of multiscalar justice seem particularly promising in terms of finding new ways to promote climate justice in a context of failure to bring climate change under political control at the national and international levels.

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Ethics, Energy Transition, and Ecological Citizenship

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