Global warming and social justice: do we owe the world for climate change?(ENVIRONMENT)

From: Regulation | Date: March 22, 2008| Author: | Copyright information

Climate change raises serious questions of science and economics, but it also raises questions of justice. The United States has been the world's leading contributor to the problem, and it is also the wealthiest nation on the face of the earth. Because of its past contributions, does the United States owe remedial action or compensation to those nations, or those citizens, most likely to be harmed by climate change?

Questions of corrective justice are entangled with questions of distributive justice. Because of its wealth, should the United States be willing to sign an ...

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