Territorial Instability and the Right to a Livable Locality
Territory loss and uninhabitability characterize the current environmental background conditions of the international state system. Such conditions present pressing moral questions about our obligations to protect those who are displaced by anthropogenic climate change. By virtue of our participatio...
| Subtitles: | "Special Issue: Adapting Environmental Ethics to Rapid, Anthropogenic, and Global Ecological Change" |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2020
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Environmental ethics
Year: 2020, Volume: 42, Issue: 2, Pages: 189-207 |
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| Summary: | Territory loss and uninhabitability characterize the current environmental background conditions of the international state system. Such conditions present pressing moral questions about our obligations to protect those who are displaced by anthropogenic climate change. By virtue of our participation in the territorial state system, understood as a social practice, we have principled grounds to address some of the consequences of the uninhabitability conditions brought on by climate change. By assuming territorial instability and employing a practice-based method of justification we can identify a fundamental, basic right protected under the state system - the right to a livable locality - which grounds a moral obligation to protect against climate change-induced displacement. Assuming territorial instability and uninhabitability compels us to recognize that the causes generating climate-displacement are not merely natural but rather deeply political and that displacement is a foreseeable failure that results because of the state system's organizational structure. |
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| ISSN: | 2153-7895 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Environmental ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5840/enviroethics2020111816 |