Climate change justice

Getting motivated in the last chance saloon

Bibliographic Data

ID12610356
AuthorsCatriona Mckinnon (0000-0003-0434-1083, University of Reading, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume14
Issue2
Pages195-213
Publication date2011-03-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1369-8230 • E-ISSN: 1743-8772
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13698230.2011.529708
OpenAlexW2051638604
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited18

A key reason for pessimism with respect to greenhouse gas emissions reduction relates to the ‘motivation problem’, whereby those who could make the biggest difference prima facie have the least incentive to act because they are most able to adapt: how can we motivate such people (and thereby everyone else) to accept, indeed to initiate, the changes to their lifestyles that are required for effective emissions reductions? This paper offers an account inspired by Rawls of the good of membership of ‘intergenerational cooperative union’ to achieve justice that provides a solution to the motivation problem

Economic Justice · Economics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Greenhouse gas · Incentive · Law and economics · Microeconomics · Pessimism · Political science · Prima facie · Sociology · Climate Change and Geoengineering · Climate Change Policy and Economics · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics

Tools

Open DOISci-Hub