Climate Legacy: A Newish Concept for the Climate Crisis
Individual and collective agents, especially affluent ones, are not doing nearly enough to prevent and prepare for the worst consequences of the unfolding climate crisis. This is, I suggest, partly because our existing conceptual repertoires are inadequate to the task of motivating climate-stabilizi...
| Subtitles: | "2020 ISEE Special Issue" |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Center for Environmental Philosophy, University of North Texas
2022
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Environmental ethics
Year: 2022, Volume: 44, Issue: 1, Pages: 25-46 |
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| Summary: | Individual and collective agents, especially affluent ones, are not doing nearly enough to prevent and prepare for the worst consequences of the unfolding climate crisis. This is, I suggest, partly because our existing conceptual repertoires are inadequate to the task of motivating climate-stabilizing activities. I argue that the concept Climate Legacy meets five desiderata for concepts that, through usage, have significant potential to motivate climate action. Contrasting Climate Legacy with Carbon Footprint, Climate Justice, and Carbon Neutrality, I clarify some advantages of thinking in terms of the former. I conclude by discussing some climate legacy-enhancing practical proposals that merit consideration. |
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| ISSN: | 2153-7895 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Environmental ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5840/enviroethics20218927 |