Moral responsibility for climate change loss and damage: A response to the excusable ignorance objection. García-Portela, L. Teorema, 39(1):7–24, 2020. abstract bibtex The Polluter Pays Principle (PPP) states that polluters should bear the burdens associated with their pollution. This principle has been highly contested because of the pu-tative impossibility of considering individuals morally responsible for an important amount of their emissions. For the PPP faces the so-called excusable ignorance objec-tion, which states that polluters were for a long time non-negligently ignorant about the negative consequences of greenhouse gas emissions and, thus, cannot be considered morally responsible for their negative consequences. This paper focuses on the concept of moral responsibility as it appears in the excusable ignorance objection. I claim that this objection stems from a narrow notion of moral responsibility and that a more fundamen-tal notion of moral responsibility would pave the way to overcome it. I show that it should be out of the question whether historical polluters should bear some burdens associated with climate change because of their historical emissions. The relevant question is which kind of burdens they can legitimately be asked to bear. I argue that this notion of moral responsibility allows us to assign burdens of symbolic reparation, which are at the core of ‘Loss and Damage’ policies. © 2020, KRK Ediciones. All rights reserved.
@article{garcia-portela_moral_2020,
title = {Moral responsibility for climate change loss and damage: {A} response to the excusable ignorance objection},
volume = {39},
shorttitle = {Moral responsibility for climate change loss and damage},
abstract = {The Polluter Pays Principle (PPP) states that polluters should bear the burdens associated with their pollution. This principle has been highly contested because of the pu-tative impossibility of considering individuals morally responsible for an important amount of their emissions. For the PPP faces the so-called excusable ignorance objec-tion, which states that polluters were for a long time non-negligently ignorant about the negative consequences of greenhouse gas emissions and, thus, cannot be considered morally responsible for their negative consequences. This paper focuses on the concept of moral responsibility as it appears in the excusable ignorance objection. I claim that this objection stems from a narrow notion of moral responsibility and that a more fundamen-tal notion of moral responsibility would pave the way to overcome it. I show that it should be out of the question whether historical polluters should bear some burdens associated with climate change because of their historical emissions. The relevant question is which kind of burdens they can legitimately be asked to bear. I argue that this notion of moral responsibility allows us to assign burdens of symbolic reparation, which are at the core of ‘Loss and Damage’ policies. © 2020, KRK Ediciones. All rights reserved.},
number = {1},
journal = {Teorema},
author = {García-Portela, L.},
year = {2020},
keywords = {12 Ignorance in other disciplinary fields, Excusable Ignorance, Ignorance in philosophy and logic, Loss and Damage, Moral Responsibility, PRINTED (Fonds papier), Polluter Pays Principle, Symbolic Reparation},
pages = {7--24},
}
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