Mazor on Indirect Obligations to Conserve Natural Resources for Future Generations

Ethics, Policy and Environment 16 (2):208 - 211 (2013)
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Many of us have the intuition that we are duty-bound to conserve natural resources for the benefit of future generations. Yet there is a well-known difficulty in trying to identify the source of th...

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10.1080/21550085.2013.801206

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Obligations to posterity.Thomas Schwartz - 1978 - In Richard I. Sikora & Brian M. Barry (eds.), Obligations to Future Generations. White Horse Press. pp. 3--3.
Liberal Justice, Future People, and Natural Resource Conservation.Joseph Mazor - 2010 - Philosophy and Public Affairs 38 (4):380-408.

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