Tying climate justice to hydrological justice
- Autores: Sue Spaid
- Localización: Rivista di estetica, ISSN 0035-6212, Anno 60, n. 75, 2020 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Ethics of the environmental crisis), págs. 143-163
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
To date, climate justice has been modeled on global justice, giving rise to such notions as ecological space, ecological debt and carbon debt. I worry that global justice fails to compel compliance and ignores hydrological systems’ role in cooling atmospheric temperatures. I thus opt to tie climate justice to hydrological justice, a form of global environmental justice that requires transparency and kinship, and proves more coercive since both burdens and targets are local. To demonstrate this view, I first distinguish global justice from global environmental justice. I next show the limits of Simon Caney’s forward-looking approach to global justice, which commits diverse parties to just burdens to reach just targets in order to facilitate climate justice. I conclude by noting that modeling climate justice on hydrological justice proves compatible with the goals of the Katowice Climate Package, passed in 2018.
