Discounting, Climate Change, and the Ecological Fallacy
| Autor: | Matthew Rendall |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Intergenerational justice
Discounting Cost–benefit analysis Arts & Humanities - Philosophy Natural resource economics discounting aggregation Climate change 06 humanities and the arts Commit 0603 philosophy ethics and religion Philosophy climate change 060302 philosophy Economics Ecological fallacy Social Sciences - Economics risk |
| ISSN: | 0014-1704 1539-297X |
| Popis: | 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 across climate change scenarios, this cannot justify discounting costs and benefits in possible states of the world in which they are not. Giving due weight to catastrophe scenarios requires energetic action against climate change. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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