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On the Permissibility (Or Otherwise) of Negative Emissions 论负排放的容许性(或其他)
IF 1 Q4 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Pub Date : 2021-02-15 DOI: 10.1080/21550085.2021.1885249
Dominic Lenzi
ABSTRACT Limiting dangerous climate change is now widely believed to require negative emissions (NETs), a prospect some believe to be unjust and unacceptably risky. While NETs are not risk-free, I argue that they could be part of minimally just responses to climate change. In doing so, I identify a dilemma between limiting warming to 1.5 ° C, which promises lower climate impacts but implies greater NETs risks, and 2°C, which requires less NETs but promises greater climate impacts. Finally, I consider what the case of NETs reveals about permissibility in the face of non-compliance with principles of climate justice.
限制危险的气候变化现在被广泛认为需要负排放(NETs),一些人认为这一前景是不公平的,而且是不可接受的风险。虽然NETs并非没有风险,但我认为它们可以成为应对气候变化的最低限度的公正措施的一部分。在此过程中,我确定了将变暖限制在1.5°C和2°C之间的两难境地,前者承诺降低气候影响,但意味着更大的net风险,后者需要更少的net,但承诺更大的气候影响。最后,我考虑了net案例揭示的面对不遵守气候正义原则的可容许性。
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引用次数: 6
Technology Neutrality in European Regulation of GMOs 欧洲转基因生物法规中的技术中立性
IF 1 Q4 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Pub Date : 2021-02-05 DOI: 10.1080/21550085.2020.1865085
P. Sandin, C. Munthe, Karin Edvardsson Björnberg
ABSTRACT Objections to the current EU regulatory system on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in terms of high cost and lack of consistency, speed and scientific underpinning have prompted proposals for a more technology-neutral system. We sketch the conceptual background of the notion of ‘technology neutrality’ and propose a refined definition of the term. The proposed definition implies that technology neutrality of a regulatory system is a gradual and multidimensional feature. We use the definition to analyze two regulatory reform proposals: One proposal from the Netherlands for improving the exemption mechanism for GMOs under Directive 2001/18/EC, and one from the Norwegian Biotechnology Advisory Board, outlining a new stratified risk assessment procedure. While both proposals offer some degree of improved technology neutrality in some dimensions compared to current EU regulation, in some extents and dimensions, they do not. We conclude that proposals for more technology-neutral regulation of GMOs need, first, to make explicit to what extent and in what dimensions the proposal improves neutrality and, second, to present arguments supporting that these specific improvements constitute desirable policy change against the background of objections to current policy.
欧盟现行的转基因生物(GMOs)监管体系因成本高、缺乏一致性、速度和科学基础而遭到反对,这促使人们提出了一种更加技术中立的体系。我们概述了“技术中立”概念的概念背景,并提出了该术语的精炼定义。提出的定义意味着监管体系的技术中立性是一个渐进的、多维的特征。我们使用该定义来分析两项监管改革提案:一项提案来自荷兰,旨在改善2001/18/EC指令下的转基因生物豁免机制;另一项提案来自挪威生物技术咨询委员会,概述了一种新的分层风险评估程序。虽然与目前的欧盟法规相比,这两项提案在某些方面都提供了一定程度的技术中立性改进,但在某些程度和维度上,它们却没有。我们的结论是,对转基因生物进行更技术中立监管的建议需要,首先,明确该建议在多大程度上和在哪些方面提高中立性,其次,在反对当前政策的背景下,提出支持这些具体改进构成理想政策变化的论据。
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引用次数: 1
Looking Forward and Backward at Extreme Event Attribution in Climate Policy 气候政策中极端事件归因的前瞻与回顾
IF 1 Q4 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Pub Date : 2021-01-17 DOI: 10.1080/21550085.2020.1848195
Greg Lusk
ABSTRACT How the science of probabilistic extreme event attribution might inform climate change adaptation is hotly debated. Central to these debates is an understanding that event attribution’s backward-looking orientation aligns poorly with the forward-facing goals of adaptation policy. Here, I analyze two new philosophical arguments that challenge this understanding and claim that probabilistic event attribution is not only forward-looking, but has a potentially significant role in risk-pooling adaptive strategies. I argue the purported forward-looking capabilities of event attribution are based on a mischaracterization of the scientific methodology, and one consequence of this mischaracterization is a limited role in adaptive risk-pooling schemes.
概率极端事件归因科学如何为气候变化适应提供信息是一个激烈的争论。这些争论的核心是理解事件归因的向后看倾向与适应政策的前瞻性目标不一致。在这里,我分析了两个新的哲学论点,它们挑战了这种理解,并声称概率事件归因不仅具有前瞻性,而且在风险分担适应策略中具有潜在的重要作用。我认为,所谓的事件归因的前瞻性能力是基于对科学方法的错误描述,这种错误描述的一个后果是在适应性风险分担计划中的作用有限。
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引用次数: 2
The Land Ethic and the Earth Ethic(s) 土地伦理和地球伦理(s)
IF 1 Q4 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Pub Date : 2021-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/21550085.2021.1904532
J. B. Callicott
ABSTRACT The Anthropocene and the Holocene are coeval. Preserving the Holocene/Anthropocene climate is the overarching concern of twenty-first-century environmental philosophy and ethics. The second wave of the environmental crisis—ozone thinning, biodiversity erosion, and climate change—crested in the mid-1980s and is global in scale. The land ethic is local in scale. Therefore, an earth ethic is needed. Leopold sketched several in 1923: a three-pronged virtue ethic, a care ethic for posterity, an ethic of respect for the living planet. An individualistic ethic for distant future generations falls afoul of the non-identity paradox. Fiduciary care for global civilization can serve as a surrogate.
人类世与全新世是同一时代。保护全新世/人类世的气候是21世纪环境哲学和伦理学的首要关注点。第二波环境危机——臭氧变薄、生物多样性侵蚀和气候变化——在20世纪80年代中期达到顶峰,并在全球范围内蔓延。土地伦理在规模上是地方性的。因此,地球伦理是必要的。利奥波德在1923年概述了几个:三管齐下的美德伦理,对后代的关怀伦理,对生命星球的尊重伦理。为遥远的后代建立个人主义伦理与非同一性悖论相冲突。对全球文明的信托关怀可以作为替代品。
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引用次数: 2
A Kantian Perspective on Individual Responsibility for Sustainability 个人可持续责任的康德视角
IF 1 Q4 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Pub Date : 2021-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/21550085.2021.1904531
K. Wallace
ABSTRACT I suggest that the Kantian categorical imperative can be a basis for an ethical duty to live sustainably. The universalizability formulation of the categorical imperative should be seen as a test of whether the principle underlying a way of life is self-destructive of the system of living and acting which makes the way of life possible. In exploring this interpretation the self should be conceptualized as a socially and system-constituted being, rather than an atomized will. In this sense, a self which lives in a way that is destructive of the system of life, is also in principle willing its own self-destruction.
我认为康德的绝对命令可以作为可持续生活的伦理义务的基础。绝对命令的普遍性公式应该被看作是一种测试,用来测试一种生活方式背后的原则是否对生活和行为系统是自我毁灭的,而生活和行为系统使生活方式成为可能。在探索这种解释时,自我应该被概念化为社会和系统构成的存在,而不是原子化的意志。从这个意义上说,一个以破坏生活体系的方式生活的自我,原则上也愿意自我毁灭。
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引用次数: 2
Ethics, Adaptation, and the Anthropocene 伦理、适应和人类世
IF 1 Q4 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Pub Date : 2021-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/21550085.2021.1904530
M. Hourdequin
ABSTRACT Some proponents of the Anthropocene argue that it is time adopt a future-oriented outlook: natural baselines no longer matter, and humans should remake the planet for the better. This raises questions about whose vision should guide such remaking, and whether the past deserves any consideration in adapting for the future. I argue that the past remains relevant, because the natural, cultural, and social worlds people enter into – shaped by those who came before us – matter. On this view, there are reasons to value ‘nature’, even in a human-altered world, and climate adaptation should take that into account.
人类世的一些支持者认为,现在是时候采取面向未来的观点了:自然基线不再重要,人类应该重塑地球,使其变得更好。这就提出了这样的问题:谁的愿景应该指导这种重塑,以及在适应未来时是否值得考虑过去。我认为过去仍然是相关的,因为人们进入的自然、文化和社会世界——由前人塑造的——很重要。根据这一观点,我们有理由重视“自然”,即使是在人类改变的世界里,气候适应也应该考虑到这一点。
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引用次数: 1
Age of Man Environmentalism and Respect for an Independent Nature 人类时代的环境保护主义和对独立自然的尊重
IF 1 Q4 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Pub Date : 2021-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/21550085.2021.1904529
Ned Hettinger
ABSTRACT The debate about a new geological epoch ‘The Anthropocene’ has helped spawn ‘Age of Man Environmentalism’ (AME). According to AME, humans’ planetary impact indicates that respect for independent nature can no longer serve as a guiding value for environmentalism. Traditional goals of nature preservation and restoration are grounded in the illusory ideal of pristine nature. Humans are now fully integrated into nature and must become responsible managers of an earth we have created, governing it by our ideals. This essay repudiates AME, defending traditional environmental values of naturalness and respect for nature’s autonomy. AME’s exaggeration of human influence over Earth manifests an anthropocentric narcissism blind to nature’s ongoing agency. Rather than becoming gods or parents of a nature that allegedly needs us, human flourishing requires we strengthen our commitment to humility, restraint, and respect for nature’s gifted character. Naturalness becomes increasingly valuable the rarer it becomes, even in highly humanized areas. AME’s thoroughly managed future ignores the possibility of rewilding and turning nature loose. Its promotion of non-native species and ‘novel ecosystems’ attempts to polish the image of human-impacted nature and denigrates preserved wild areas. Taking seriously humans’ massive impact on earth does not require abandoning traditional environmental values.
关于新地质时代“人类世”的争论催生了“人类环境主义时代”(AME)。根据AME,人类对地球的影响表明,尊重独立的自然不再是环境保护主义的指导价值。传统的自然保护和恢复目标是建立在原始自然的虚幻理想之上的。人类现在已经完全融入自然,必须成为我们创造的地球的负责任的管理者,用我们的理想来治理它。本文否定AME,捍卫自然的传统环境价值和尊重自然的自主性。AME夸大了人类对地球的影响,体现了一种以人类为中心的自恋,对大自然正在进行的代理视而不见。人类的繁荣需要我们加强对谦卑、克制和尊重自然天赋的承诺,而不是成为据称需要我们的自然的神或父母。自然变得越稀有就越有价值,即使在高度人性化的地区也是如此。AME彻底管理的未来忽视了重新野生化和放松自然的可能性。它对非本地物种和“新生态系统”的推广试图美化人类影响自然的形象,并诋毁受保护的野生地区。认真对待人类对地球的巨大影响并不需要放弃传统的环境价值观。
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引用次数: 1
Wildness without Naturalness 没有自然的野性
IF 1 Q4 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Pub Date : 2021-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/21550085.2021.1953342
Alexander Lee, A. Amir, B. Hale
ABSTRACT Some fear the Anthropocene heralds the end of nature, while others argue that nature will persist throughout the Anthropocene. Still others worry that acknowledging the Anthropocene grants humanity broad license to further inject itself into nature. We propose that this debate rests on a conflation between naturalness and wildness. Where naturalness is best understood as fundamentally a metaphysical category, wildness can be better understood as an inter-relational category. The raccoons in cities, the deer in suburban yards, the coyotes hunting cats and dogs: these all return wildness, where naturalness may have been lost.
一些人担心人类世预示着自然的终结,而另一些人则认为自然将在整个人类世中持续存在。还有人担心,承认“人类世”的存在,会让人类有更大的空间进一步融入自然。我们建议这场辩论建立在自然和野性之间的混淆上。自然本质上是一个形而上学的范畴,而野性则是一个相互关联的范畴。城市里的浣熊,郊区院子里的鹿,捕猎猫和狗的土狼:这些都回归了自然,在那里自然可能已经失去了。
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引用次数: 0
Information and Virtue in the Anthropocene 人类世的信息与美德
IF 1 Q4 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Pub Date : 2021-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/21550085.2021.1904533
J. Kawall
ABSTRACT To reliably choose morally sound policies, whether as a society or as an individual, will typically require a deep and wide-ranging base of relevant knowledge. In this paper I consider the epistemic demands for morally sound action and policy in the Anthropocene. I argue that these demands are likely to be unsatisfied, leading to a potential downward spiral of ineffective action in the face of worsening conditions; this seems a strong possibility both for individual lives, and for societies as a whole. Given the likely scale of ignorance in the face of rapid, poorly-understood change, the best efforts of future generations to act morally may often be little more than guesses, with a far lower chance of asuccess than in more stable conditions. As moral failures mount, and conditions continue to deteriorate, our epistemic efforts seem likely to be pressured and subject to various biases, leading to further errors and failures. Our ability to live virtuously and to act rightly is likely to be put under severe strain in the Anthropocene. Our approach to ethics will likely need to change to the extent that, for a wide range of cases, we will not know what the right action to perform will be; we will typically be acting without such moral knowledge. The final section of my paper addresses ways in which we might attempt to address or mitigate these worries.
无论是作为社会还是作为个人,要可靠地选择道德健全的政策,通常需要深厚而广泛的相关知识基础。在本文中,我考虑在人类世道德健全的行动和政策的认识论要求。我认为,这些要求很可能得不到满足,从而导致面对日益恶化的形势,采取无效行动的潜在恶性循环;对于个人生活和整个社会来说,这似乎都是一个很大的可能性。考虑到面对快速而又难以理解的变化时可能出现的无知程度,未来几代人在道德上做出的最佳努力可能往往只是猜测,而且成功的几率远低于在更稳定的条件下。随着道德失败的增加,情况继续恶化,我们的认知努力似乎有可能受到压力,受到各种偏见的影响,导致进一步的错误和失败。在人类世,我们的道德生活和正确行为的能力可能会受到严重的压力。我们对道德的态度可能需要改变,以至于在广泛的情况下,我们将不知道什么是正确的行为;我们通常会在没有这种道德知识的情况下行事。我论文的最后一部分讨论了我们可能尝试解决或减轻这些担忧的方法。
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‘Don’t Think of Fukushima!’: The Ethics of Risk Reframing in ‘Nuclear for Climate’ Communications “别想福岛!”:“核能应对气候变化”传播中的风险重构伦理
IF 1 Q4 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Pub Date : 2020-12-16 DOI: 10.1080/21550085.2020.1864800
Ryan M. Katz-Rosene
ABSTRACT In recent years an assemblage of nuclear energy proponents has coalesced around the notion of ‘Climate First’ – arguing that nuclear power is a necessary component of the fight against climate change. One noteworthy addition to the Climate First fold is the semi-formalized communications campaign Nuclear for Climate (N4C). This article builds upon a previous ethical critique of Climate First by conducting a comparison of the extent of risk concept disclosure seen within N4C’s key messaging and more ‘traditional’ Climate First texts. The article demonstrates how there has been a noticeable shift in the communications strategy of N4C vis-à-vis ‘traditionalists’, and moreover that models of environmental framing and affective heuristics help to explain the strategic value of this risk reframing for the nuclear industry. It further argues that this reframing of risk gives rise to an ethical paradox, wherein strategic advocates of nuclear energy as a climate mitigation tool could be compelled to withhold important aspects of the nuclear story from the public to promote what they understand to be an urgently-needed tool for saving the planet.
近年来,一群核能支持者围绕“气候优先”的概念联合起来,认为核能是对抗气候变化的必要组成部分。“气候第一”项目中一个值得注意的新成员是半正式的“核促气候”(N4C)宣传活动。本文建立在之前对“气候优先”的伦理批评的基础上,对N4C的关键信息和更“传统”的“气候优先”文本中所见的风险概念披露程度进行了比较。本文展示了N4C与-à-vis“传统主义者”的沟通策略是如何发生显著转变的,此外,环境框架和情感启发式模型有助于解释这种风险重构对核工业的战略价值。它进一步认为,这种对风险的重新定义产生了一种伦理悖论,即核能作为减缓气候变化工具的战略倡导者可能被迫向公众隐瞒核故事的重要方面,以宣传他们所理解的拯救地球的迫切需要的工具。
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