Sustainability | |
Intergenerational Justice: How Reasonable Man Discounts Climate Damage | |
关键词: intergenerational justice; equity; climate change; social rate of time preference; reasonable man; risk; tort law; future generations; | |
DOI : 10.3390/su4010106 | |
来源: mdpi | |
【 摘 要 】
Moral philosophers and economists have evaluated the intergenerational problem of climate change by applying the whole gamut of theories on distributive justice. In this article, however, it is argued that intergenerational justice cannot imply the application of moral ideal theories to future generations. The formal principle of equality simply requires us to treat like cases as like. If intergenerational justice is to have
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