MATTHEW RENDALL matthew.rendall@nottingham.ac.uk
Lecturer
Carbon leakage and the argument from no difference
Rendall, Matthew
Authors
Abstract
Critics of carbon mitigation often appeal to what Jonathan Glover has called ‘the argument from no difference’: that is, ‘if I don’t do it, someone else will’. Yet even if this justifies continued high emissions by the industrialised countries, it cannot excuse business as usual. The North’s emissions might not harm the victims of climate change in the sense of making them worse off than they would otherwise be. Nevertheless, it receives benefits produced at the latter’s expense. This enrichment is unjust; unjustly-enriched agents ought to make compensation. The best form of compensation is vigorous action against climate change.
Citation
Rendall, M. (2015). Carbon leakage and the argument from no difference. Environmental Values, 24(4), https://doi.org/10.3197/096327115X14345368710022
Journal Article Type | Article |
---|---|
Acceptance Date | Apr 22, 2014 |
Publication Date | Aug 1, 2015 |
Deposit Date | Jul 15, 2016 |
Publicly Available Date | Jul 15, 2016 |
Journal | Environmental Values |
Print ISSN | 0963-2719 |
Electronic ISSN | 1752-7015 |
Publisher | White Horse Press |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 24 |
Issue | 4 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.3197/096327115X14345368710022 |
Keywords | Climate change; carbon leakage; consequentialism; over-determination |
Public URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/755769 |
Publisher URL | http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/whp/ev/2015/00000024/00000004/art00007 |
Contract Date | Jul 15, 2016 |
Files
Rendall 2015, 'Carbon Leakage'.pdf
(306 Kb)
PDF
Copyright Statement
Copyright information regarding this work can be found at the following address: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
You might also like
Mere addition and the separateness of persons
(2015)
Journal Article
Non-identity, sufficiency and exploitation
(2011)
Journal Article
Nuclear weapons and intergenerational exploitation
(2007)
Journal Article
Defensive realism and the Concert of Europe
(2006)
Journal Article
Downloadable Citations
About Repository@Nottingham
Administrator e-mail: discovery-access-systems@nottingham.ac.uk
This application uses the following open-source libraries:
SheetJS Community Edition
Apache License Version 2.0 (http://www.apache.org/licenses/)
PDF.js
Apache License Version 2.0 (http://www.apache.org/licenses/)
Font Awesome
SIL OFL 1.1 (http://scripts.sil.org/OFL)
MIT License (http://opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html)
CC BY 3.0 ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
Powered by Worktribe © 2024
Advanced Search