Do Future Generations Have the Right to Breathe Clean Air
A Note
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6350476 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bertram Bandman (Long Island University, Brooklyn Center, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1982 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 95-102 |
| Publication date | 1982-02-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-5917 • E-ISSN: 1552-7476 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0090591782010001006 |
| OpenAlex | W2010017644 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
1) The first position holds that future generations have rights substantially like our rights, which imply obligations against us. For some defenders of the rights of future generations, these rights take the form (a) of an extended eternal contract between members of one generation, linking them and members of all other generations inextricably (Edmund Burke). ' For others (b), the rights of future generations flow from a less extended contract model between members of adjacent and near-adjacent generations. The rights of any generation are due to what a predecessor generation would justly set aside for them (J. Rawls).2 For yet others (c), the move to attribute rights to indefinite others or not-yet-determinate persons (A. Baier) includes potential beings who will have interests, needs and rights very much like ourselves (A. Baier, G. Pletcher, E. Partridge).3 For all three variations, the rights of future generations are like our rights. (2) A second position is that future generations may have in rem rights attributable to them which imply imperfect obligations. On this view, the rights of future generations are conditional rights, like the right of a drowning person to live only if others are near enough to save this person without seriously risking their own lives
Aside · Bill of rights · Economics · Fundamental rights · Human rights · Imperfect · Law and economics · Overlapping generations model · Political science · Position (finance · Right to property · Rights of Nature · Sociology · Climate Change and Geoengineering · Law · Philosophy · Space exploration and regulation
| Citations per year | 0.09 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2004 - 2005 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |