Climate justice: a question of historic responsibility?

Journal of Global Ethics 7 (3):261-278 (2011)
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The paper argues against the assumption that citizens of industrialized countries bear responsibility for greenhouse emissions in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. An array of arguments for such a historic responsibility is refuted. The crucial role of the assumption of a liability for bona fide misappropriation in a state of nature (Lockean strict liability) is pointed out.

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10.1080/17449626.2011.635682

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