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Carbon leakage and the argument from no difference (2015)
Journal Article
Rendall, M. (2015). Carbon leakage and the argument from no difference. Environmental Values, 24(4), https://doi.org/10.3197/096327115X14345368710022

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 ca... Read More about Carbon leakage and the argument from no difference.

Mere addition and the separateness of persons (2015)
Journal Article
Rendall, M. (2015). Mere addition and the separateness of persons. Journal of Philosophy, 112(8), https://doi.org/10.5840/jphil2015112827

How can we resist the repugnant conclusion? James Griffin has suggested that part way through the sequence we may reach a world—let us call it “J”— in which the lives are lexically superior to those that follow. If it would be better to live a single... Read More about Mere addition and the separateness of persons.