What do climate change winners owe, and to whom?

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dc.contributor.authorMintz-Woo, Kian
dc.contributor.authorLeroux, Justin
dc.contributor.funderPrinceton University Libraryen
dc.date.accessioned2021-03-09T11:18:08Z
dc.date.available2021-03-09T11:18:08Z
dc.date.issued2021-02-23
dc.date.updated2021-03-05T12:12:49Z
dc.description.abstractClimate ethics have been concerned with polluter pays, beneficiary pays and ability to pay principles, all of which consider climate change as a single negative externality. This paper considers it as a constellation of externalities, positive and negative, with different associated demands of justice. This is important because explicitly considering positive externalities has not to our knowledge been done in the climate ethics literature. Specifically, it is argued that those who enjoy passive gains from climate change owe gains not to the net losers, but to the emitters, just as the emitters owe compensation to the net losers for the negative externality. This is defended by appeal to theoretical virtues and to the social benefits of generating positive externalities, even when those positive externalities are coupled with far greater negative externalities. We call this the Polluter Pays, Then Receives (‘PPTR', or ‘Peter') Principle.en
dc.description.sponsorshipPrinceton University Library (Open Access Fund Program)en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationMintz-Woo, K. and Leroux, J. (2021) 'What do climate change winners owe, and to whom?', Economics and Philosophy. doi: 10.1017/s0266267120000449en
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/s0266267120000449en
dc.identifier.eissn1474-0028
dc.identifier.endpage22en
dc.identifier.issn0266-2671
dc.identifier.journaltitleEconomics and Philosophyen
dc.identifier.startpage1en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/11123
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherCambridge University Pressen
dc.rights© 2021, the Authors. Published by Cambridge University Press. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjectClimate changeen
dc.subjectClimate justiceen
dc.subjectCarbon taxen
dc.subjectPolluter pays principleen
dc.subjectExternalityen
dc.titleWhat do climate change winners owe, and to whom?en
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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