Responsibility for Climate Harms

Obst, Arthur

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-16960-2_49-1

Handbooks in Philosophy

2023

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-16960-2_49-1

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Responsibility for Climate Harms

Arthur Obst

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Moral Reasoning in the Climate Crisis: A Personal Guide

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2024

Moral Philosophy and Politics

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This article substantiates the common intuition that it is wrong to contribute to dangerous climate change for no significant reason. To advance this claim, I first propose a basic principle that one has the moral obligation to act in accordance with the weight of moral reasons. I further claim that there are significant moral reasons for individuals not to emit greenhouse gases, as many other climate ethicists have already argued. Then, I assert that there are often no significant moral (or excusing) reasons to emit greenhouse gases. In any such trivial-cost – but not necessarily trivial-impact – cases, the individual then has an obligation to refrain. Finally, I apply the moral weighing principle to everyday situations of emitting and establish two surprisingly substantial implications: the relevance of virtues to the interpersonal assessment of environmentally harmful actions and the extensive individual ethical obligations that exist short of moral purity.

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Moral Reasoning in the Climate Crisis: A Personal Guide

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