CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020
| Author | Kósa, Livia |
|---|---|
| Title | Intergenerational distributive justice and climate change |
| Summary | The thesis discusses our responsibility towards future generations in the context of climate change in a distributive justice framework. The method of the thesis is analytic philosophy – it analyzes normative and empirical arguments about climate change mitigation. Besides the works of philosophers as Derek Parfit, John Rawls, Simon Caney, and Peter Singer, theories of economists who studied climate change, and its effect on the least advantaged, are also studied in the thesis. Three global warming mitigation scenarios are evaluated based on different normative standpoints about intergenerational distributive justice. The thesis argues, relying on the evaluation of the different scenarios, that there is a need for climate change mitigation and the burdens of climate change reduction should be carried by the rich, possibly in a way that today living people benefit from the mitigation policies. |
| Supervisor | Miklósi, Zoltán |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2020/kosa_livia.pdf |
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