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Autor:
Matthew Rendall
Like asteroids, hundred-year floods and pandemic disease, thermonuclear war is a low-frequency, high-impact threat. In the long run, catastrophe is inevitable if nothing is done − yet each successive government and generation may fail to address it
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Autor:
Matthew Rendall
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Climate Policy. 21:976-982
If the present generation refuses to bear the burden of mitigating global heating, could we motivate sufficient action by shifting that burden to our descendants? Several writers have proposed breaking the political impasse by funding mitigation thro
Autor:
Matthew Rendall, Soromnear Sin
Publikováno v:
Asia-Pacific Trusts Law, Volume 2 ISBN: 9781509954605
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https://doi.org/10.5040/9781509954636.ch-015
https://doi.org/10.5040/9781509954636.ch-015
Autor:
Matthew Rendall
Publikováno v:
International Relations. :004711782211369
Why is daredevil aggression like Russia’s war on Ukraine such an important factor in world politics? Neither offensive nor defensive realists give a fully satisfactory answer. This paper maintains that the problem lies in their shared assumption th
Autor:
Matthew Rendall
Publikováno v:
The Oxford Handbook of Intergenerational Ethics ISBN: 9780190881931
This chapter applies Stephen M. Gardiner’s model of the perfect moral storm to nuclear deterrence. Most damage from a major nuclear war would fall on third parties rather than the belligerents. Some would be present-day people in neutral countries
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https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190881931.013.50
https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190881931.013.50
Autor:
Matthew Rendall
Discounting future costs and benefits is often defended on the ground that our descendants will be richer. Simply to treat the future as better off, however, is to commit an ecological fallacy. Even if our descendants are better off when we average a
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https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/file/1145321/1/701481
https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/file/1145321/1/701481
Autor:
Matthew Rendall
Publikováno v:
Oxford Scholarship
It is sometimes argued in support of discounting future costs and benefits that if we gave the same weight to the future as to the present, we would invest nearly all our income, but never spend it. Rather than enjoying the fruits of our investments,
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https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198813248.003.0010
https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198813248.003.0010
Autor:
Matthew Rendall
Publikováno v:
Contemporary Political Theory. 16:155-157
Autor:
Matthew Rendall
Publikováno v:
Environmental Values. 24:535-552
Critics of carbon mitigation often appeal to what Jonathan Glover has called 'the argument from no difference': that is, 'if I don't do it, someone else will'. Yet even if this justifies continued high emissions by the industrialised countries, it ca
Autor:
Matthew Rendall
Publikováno v:
Journal of Philosophy. 112:442-455
How can we resist the repugnant conclusion? James Griffin has suggested that part way through the sequence we may reach a world—let us call it “J”— in which the lives are lexically superior to those that follow. If it would be better to live