Adaptation, Transformation, and Development

IF 1.1 4区 哲学 Q4 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Environmental Ethics Pub Date : 2020-10-22 DOI:10.5840/enviroethics20204213
A. Thompson
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It is widely accepted that we must adapt to climate change. But we sit on the edge of radical, unprecedented, and rapid anthropogenic environmental changes that are driven by many factors in addition to greenhouse gas emissions. In this way, we occupy a unique and precarious position in the history of our species. Many basic conditions of life on Earth are changing at an alarming rate and thus we should begin to transform and broaden our thinking about adaptation. The conceptual history of climate adaptation intersects with conceptions of human development and sustainability, which provides a framework for adaptation in how we think about human flourishing and, subsequently, what it is to be human in the Anthropocene. If sustainability is about maintaining human welfare across generations but we acknowledge that climate change may undercut our ability to deliver as much and as good total or natural capital to subsequent generations, we have a residual duty to otherwise positively affect the welfare of future generations. A subjective, preference-based conception of human welfare is compared to an objective, capabilities-based approach and, while some adaptive preferences are unavoidable, embracing an objective theory of human flourishing provides a superior approach for meeting the residual duty we have to future generations by beginning the process of adapting our conception of human natural goodness, or what it is to be a good human being.
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适应、转型和发展
人们普遍认为,我们必须适应气候变化。但我们正处于激进、前所未有、快速的人为环境变化的边缘,除了温室气体排放之外,这些变化还受到许多因素的驱动。通过这种方式,我们在我们物种的历史上占据着独特而不稳定的地位。地球上生命的许多基本条件正在以惊人的速度变化,因此我们应该开始转变和拓宽我们对适应的思考。气候适应的概念史与人类发展和可持续性的概念交叉,这为我们如何看待人类繁荣以及人类世中的人类提供了一个适应框架。如果可持续性是为了维护几代人的人类福利,但我们承认气候变化可能会削弱我们为子孙后代提供尽可能多、尽可能好的总资本或自然资本的能力,那么我们还有义务以其他方式积极影响子孙后代的福利。将主观的、基于偏好的人类福利观与客观的、基于能力的方法进行比较,虽然一些适应性偏好是不可避免的,但接受人类繁荣的客观理论为满足我们对后代的剩余责任提供了一种优越的方法,即开始调整我们对人类自然善的概念,或者做一个好人是什么。
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