Individual Responsibility to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions from a Kantian Deontological Perspective

IF 2.2 2区 哲学 Q3 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Environmental Values Pub Date : 2023-12-01 DOI:10.3197/096327123x16800137060203
M. Davidson
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As a collective action problem, climate change is best tackled by coordination. Most moral philosophers therefore agree on our individual responsibility as political citizens to help establish such coordination. There is disagreement, however, on our individual responsibilities as consumers to reduce emissions before such coordination is established. In this article I argue that from a Kantian deontological perspective we have a perfect duty to refrain from activities that we would not perform if appropriate coordination were established. Moral autonomy means that we do not need to wait for an external lawmaker to tell us what we ought to do. In practice, this means basing our decisions on a shadow price for carbon: if we would not go out for a drive on a sunny Sunday afternoon in a gas-guzzling sport utility vehicle if gas prices were twice as high, we should not do it now. Moreover, we have imperfect duties to reduce emissions by more than our perfect duties require.
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从康德义务论的角度看减少温室气体排放的个人责任
气候变化是一个集体行动问题,应对气候变化最好靠协调。因此,大多数道德哲学家都同意,作为政治公民,我们有责任帮助建立这种协调。然而,在建立这种协调之前,我们作为消费者的个人责任在减少排放方面存在分歧。在这篇文章中,我认为从康德的义务论的角度来看,我们有一个完美的责任来避免那些如果建立了适当的协调我们就不会执行的活动。道德自治意味着我们不需要等待外部立法者告诉我们应该做什么。实际上,这意味着我们的决策是基于碳的影子价格:如果油价是现在的两倍,我们就不会在一个阳光明媚的周日下午开着一辆耗油的运动型多功能车出去兜风,那么我们现在也不应该这么做。此外,我们在减排方面的义务并不完善,比我们完善的义务所要求的要多。
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期刊介绍: Environmental Values is an international peer-reviewed journal that brings together contributions from philosophy, economics, politics, sociology, geography, anthropology, ecology and other disciplines, which relate to the present and future environment of human beings and other species. In doing so we aim to clarify the relationship between practical policy issues and more fundamental underlying principles or assumptions.
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