{"title":"Hope in an Illiberal Age?","authors":"Mark R. Reiff","doi":"10.1080/21550085.2024.2306115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21550085.2024.2306115","url":null,"abstract":"In this commentary on Darrel Moellendorf’s Mobilizing Hope: Climate Change & Global Poverty (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022), I discuss his use of the precautionary principle, whether his ho...","PeriodicalId":45955,"journal":{"name":"Ethics Policy & Environment","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139578282","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"All I Ask of You","authors":"Gwen Ottinger","doi":"10.1080/21550085.2024.2306116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21550085.2024.2306116","url":null,"abstract":"Mobilizing Hope asks that we take the eradication of poverty as morally mandatory, that we pursue technological development, and that we act on the belief that it is possible to do both of those th...","PeriodicalId":45955,"journal":{"name":"Ethics Policy & Environment","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139578683","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Thinking about Hope, Vision, and Mobilization with Darrel Moellendorf’s Mobilizing Hope","authors":"John M. Meyer","doi":"10.1080/21550085.2024.2306118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21550085.2024.2306118","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Ethics, Policy & Environment (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":45955,"journal":{"name":"Ethics Policy & Environment","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139556267","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Synthetic Biology and the Goals of Conservation","authors":"Christopher Hunter Lean","doi":"10.1080/21550085.2023.2298646","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21550085.2023.2298646","url":null,"abstract":"The introduction of new genetic material into wild populations, using novel biotechnology, has the potential to fortify populations against existential threats, and, controversially, create wild ge...","PeriodicalId":45955,"journal":{"name":"Ethics Policy & Environment","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139376529","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Another Shake of the Bag: Stefansson and Willners on Offsetting and Risk Imposition","authors":"Christian Barry, Garrett Cullity","doi":"10.1080/21550085.2023.2297339","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21550085.2023.2297339","url":null,"abstract":"There is a difference between acting with a probability of making a difference to who is harmed, and worsening someone’s prospect. This difference is relevant to debates about the ethics of offsett...","PeriodicalId":45955,"journal":{"name":"Ethics Policy & Environment","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139067369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Political Feasibility and a Global Climate Treaty","authors":"David Lefkowitz","doi":"10.1080/21550085.2023.2282915","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21550085.2023.2282915","url":null,"abstract":"I contend that to be politically feasible a global climate treaty must satisfy the International Paretian principle (IP). I begin by defending IP as a principle of instrumental rationality that ref...","PeriodicalId":45955,"journal":{"name":"Ethics Policy & Environment","volume":"59 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138503595","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Welcoming, Wild Animals, and Obligations to Assist","authors":"Josh Milburn","doi":"10.1080/21550085.2023.2200730","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21550085.2023.2200730","url":null,"abstract":"What we could call ‘relational non-interventionism’ holds that we have no general obligation to alleviate animal suffering, and that we do not typically have special obligations to alleviate wild animals’ suffering. Therefore, we do not generally have a duty to intervene in nature to alleviate wild animal suffering. However, there are a range of relationships that we may have with wild animals that do generate special obligations to aid – and the consequences of these obligations can be surprising. In this paper, I argue that we have special obligations to those animals we have historically welcomed or encouraged into our spaces. This includes many wild animals. One of the consequences of this is that we may sometimes possess obligations to actively prevent rewilding – or even to dewild – for the sake of welcomed animals who thrive in human-controlled spaces.","PeriodicalId":45955,"journal":{"name":"Ethics Policy & Environment","volume":"27 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134954303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Externalities and the Limits of Pigovian Policies","authors":"Rebecca Livernois","doi":"10.1080/21550085.2023.2272549","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21550085.2023.2272549","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTPigovian policy is developed in economic theory as an efficient resolution to externality problems. The use of this type of policy to resolve real-world externality problems, including climate change in the form of carbon taxes, assumes that the Pigovian policy result derived in theory holds in the real world. By examining the bridging conditions from theory to the real world, I argue that this assumption holds only in an ambiguously defined subset of externalities. It is thus unclear when Pigovian policy could be coherently applied, which is problematic given its widespread use in critical policy contexts.KEYWORDS: Carbon taxclimate policyexternalitymarket-based policyphilosophy of economics AcknowledgmentsI am grateful to Margaret Schabas, Alison Wylie, John Beatty, and Joseph Heath for their helpful comments and suggestions. I also benefitted from audiences at several conferences and seminars, including the Philosophy, Politics and Economics Research Seminar at Arizona State University and the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1. Pigovian policy is so called after the economist Alfred Pigou (Citation1920/2017) who is often cited as the progenitor of externality theory in economics (Medema, Citation2020).2. This is distinct to the question of whether implementing a specific Pigovian policy is justified, which has been extensively examined by economists. There are several well-known reasons that implementing such a policy might not be justifiable in practice, including high administrative costs relative to the expected benefits of the policy and insufficient information on the part of the policymaker about individual preferences (see Baumol, Citation1972; Tol, Citation2018; Winston, Citation2006). In order to assess the justifiability of implementing a particular Pigovian policy response, however, it must first be established that such a policy response is at least coherent in the given context. This paper is focused on this more basic question.3. Pigovian policy features prominently in justifying and guiding government carbon tax policies (Rennert & Kingdon, Citation2019). It is also endorsed by many leading economists in an open letter published in the Wall Street Journal (Akerlof et al., Citation2019) as well as in the informal ‘Pigou Club’, which is a list of economists and policymakers who endorse Pigovian policies (Mankiw, Citation2009).4. It is important to note that this paper does not call into question the general use of a carbon tax to address climate change. Instead, it calls into question the use of a particular type of tax that is justified by externality theory and which calls for a specific carbon tax rate determined by estimates of the value of the externality generated by carbon dioxide emissions.5. The concept of an externality in economics, however, is notoriously difficult to precisely define. In the latte","PeriodicalId":45955,"journal":{"name":"Ethics Policy & Environment","volume":"31 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135974831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Compound Injustice of the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM)","authors":"Fausto Corvino","doi":"10.1080/21550085.2023.2272237","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21550085.2023.2272237","url":null,"abstract":"EU co-legislators recently approved the EU carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM), which establishes a uniform carbon price on both EU and imported products, in ETS covered sectors. This violates the CBDR-RC principle. Yet, CBAM advocates claim that the resulting unfair mitigation can be offset by scaling up climate finance, to the benefit of poorer countries. I argue that the CBAM’s unfairness is compounded by previous climate injustice, as avoidable emissions by developed countries pushed the climate crisis to the point where fair mitigation is no longer viable. This implies that a disadvantage within the distributive sphere of emissions abatement cannot be counterbalanced by additional advantages within the distributive sphere of climate finance.","PeriodicalId":45955,"journal":{"name":"Ethics Policy & Environment","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135927874","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}