Climate Change as Climate Debt: Forging a Just Future
Climate change may be the most far-reaching manifestation of white privilege and class privilege to face humankind. Caused overwhelmingly by high-consuming people, climate change is wreaking death and destruction foremost on impoverished people, who also are disproportionately people of color. This...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2016]
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Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics
Year: 2016, Volume: 36, Issue: 1, Pages: 27-49 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CA Christianity NCC Social ethics NCD Political ethics NCG Environmental ethics; Creation ethics |
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| Summary: | Climate change may be the most far-reaching manifestation of white privilege and class privilege to face humankind. Caused overwhelmingly by high-consuming people, climate change is wreaking death and destruction foremost on impoverished people, who also are disproportionately people of color. This essay first posits climate change as a compelling moral matter of race- and class-based climate debt and Global North climate debt. A second part draws upon the descriptive and transformative tasks of Christian ethics as a critical discourse to frame a moral response. Finally, the essay illustrates implications for public policy. I propose the concepts of climate privilege, climate violence, and blinders of climate privilege as tools for demystifying our situation; climate reparations as a dimension of a moral response; and atmospheric citizenship as a tool for moral identity |
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| ISSN: | 2326-2176 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Society of Christian Ethics, Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/sce.2016.0014 |
