Robust Individual Responsibility for Climate Harms

Pellegrino, Gianfranco

doi:10.1007/s10677-018-9915-5

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“…Our examples show the importance of information and coordination for the effectiveness of these adaptation responses. At the same time, empirical research into people's perceived responsibility shows that people who acknowledge their own role in climate adaptation are also much more open to the communication of its technical details [40]. This suggests that these normative considerations of climate adaptation policy should be the starting point of any climate adaptation response and not an afterthought.…”

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“…Individual responsibility for climate change: One strand of literature focuses on the extent to which individuals can be held responsible for climate change. This literature centers around responsibility as blameworthiness, and the question to what extent traditional criteria for individual responsibility are met: whether or not the individual has the relevant knowledge [36] and freedom to choose between alternative acts [37], whether the individual is an intentional agent concerning the act [38], the individual's causal contribution to the undesirable outcome [39,40], and whether or not the act itself can be seen as in instance of wrong-doing [41,42]. For an elaborate discussion of these criteria, see amongst others, [43][44][45]).…”

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Distributing Responsibilities for Climate Adaptation: Examples from the Water Domain

2021

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It is often assumed that climate adaptation policy asks for new responsibility arrangements between central government and citizens, with citizens getting a more prominent role. This prompts the question under which conditions these new responsibility arrangements can be justified as they may raise serious ethical concerns. Without paying due attention to these ethical concerns, climate adaptation policy may be unsuccessful and even be considered illegitimate. This paper aims to address this topic by exploring some examples of climate adaptation responses and their associated ethical challenges. The examples from the water domain differ in terms of their primary beneficiaries and the extent to which they are prone to collective action problems. Discussion of the examples shows that any shift of responsibilities towards citizens should be accompanied by a governmental responsibility to make sure that citizens are indeed able to assume these responsibilities and a responsibility to see to it that the greater involvement of responsibilities does not create disproportional inequalities.

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Distributing Responsibilities for Climate Adaptation: Examples from the Water Domain

2021

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“…This objection to moral individual responsibility has been widely discussed (Baatz, 2014;Pellegrino, 2018;Broome, 2012;Kagan, 2011;Corvino & Pirni, 2022). One of the most explored responses makes appeal to the political sphere.…”

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Climate Change and the Motivational Gap

Pirni

2023

Handbooks in Philosophy

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The chapter proposes first a definition of motivation and its intrinsic challenges, e.g., the expression and maintenance of motivation in a consistent form. Specific attention is devoted to the main obstacles toward the establishment of an intergenerational climate-change-sensitive motivation. The chapter explores then what could be considered the most relevant conceptual contraposition with respect to the adoption of climate-change-sensitive behaviors, both from an individual and institutional perspective: the dialectic between indifference and solidarity. We will examine how these concepts lead to different motivational perspectives that, in turn, ground and

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“…This makes the standard conception of political responsibility no longer viable in the Anthropocene. 24 Given the above, in the Anthropocene the traditional dichotomies between political theory (and social and human sciences) and natural sciences blur. In the Anthropocene, human beings become planetary geological agents, while keeping their political agency -indeed, political agency becomes planetary agency.…”

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Politics in the Anthropocene: Non-human Citizenship and the Grand Domestication

Pellegrino

2023

RIFP

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The article has two aims. First, it provides a view of why the standard liberal-democratic political theory is unfit for the Anthropocene. Then, it defends two claims: that the fittest politics for the Anthropocene is to be fully non-anthropocentric and that the best model of a non-anthropocentric political theory is to be grounded in the notion of ‘ecological citizenship’, which can be easily extended to non-human living beings and even to non-living objects, such as ecosystems. The latter claim is defended by endorsing and enlarging Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka’s views of animal citizenship rights and by putting forward a view of the Anthropocene as an age of massive domestication of non-human nature.

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Robust Individual Responsibility for Climate Harms

Cited by 10 publications

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Distributing Responsibilities for Climate Adaptation: Examples from the Water Domain

Distributing Responsibilities for Climate Adaptation: Examples from the Water Domain

Climate Change and the Motivational Gap

Politics in the Anthropocene: Non-human Citizenship and the Grand Domestication

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