Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2023
Abstract
Climate change is a global phenomenon. Therefore, globalization is the necessary hermeneutical horizon if one wants to develop an analysis on the metamorphosis in which climate change could cause at a political, social, and economic level. Within this horizon, this paper shows how the relationship between the concept of the Anthropocene Epoch and the request for justice allows for framing a specific political interpretation of the effects of climate change. Such a peculiar political interpretation coincides with the claim for a climate justice and intergenerational equity. Indeed, in order to avoid the reduction of such a claim to the mere outcome of an ideological critique towards capitalism, the conception of climate justice needs to be sustained by a rational, ethical model. The thesis of this paper is that the ethics of responsibility, inspired by Hans Jonas' well-known philosophy, could work just as a promising rational foundation of the claim for a climate justice. The ethics of responsibility would be also aligned with the principles established by the study and analysis of the relationships between science, technology, and society.
Recommended Citation
Paolo D. Farah & Alessio L. Giudice,
Climate Justice in the Anthropocene and Its Relationship with Science and Technology,
55
Connecticut Law Review
(2023).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.pitt.edu/fac_articles/569
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